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- Responsible approach to stock enhancement
- Stock enhancement books & journal proceedings
- Population dynamics and assessment
- Stakeholder effects on enhancement outcome
- Identifying hatchery fish
- Release magnitude effects on survival
- Contribution to spawning stocks, offspring & fisheries
- Impact of release strategies on costs
- Size-at-release effect
- Release habitat effect
- Release season effect
- Acclimation effects
- Behavior of hatchery fish
- Ecology & Life History
- Inducers of stress
- Conserving genetics of wild stocks
- Aquaculture research
- R & D needs
- Strategic plans for stock enhancement
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Publications on Stock-Enhancement by SCORE Scientists
Responsible approach to stock enhancement
Leber, K.M. 2012. Marine fisheries enhancement: Coming of age in the new millennium. In: R. A. Meyers (ed), Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer Science. 20 pages. (Pre-Print / Corrected Proof)
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Lorenzen, K., K. M. Leber and H. L. Blankenship. 2010. Responsible approach to marine stock enhancement: An update. Reviews in Fisheries Science 18(2):189-210.
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Blankenship, H. L. and K. M. Leber. 1995. A responsible approach to marine stock enhancement. In Uses and effects of cultured fishes in aquatic ecosystems. American Fisheries Society Symposium 15:165-175.
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Bell, J.D., D.M. Bartley, K. Lorenzen and N.R. Loneragan. 2006. Restocking and stock enhancement of coastal fisheries: Potential, problems and progress. Fisheries Research. 80: 1-8.
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Bell, J.D., K.M. Leber, H.L. Blankenship, N.R. Loneragan and R. Masuda. 2008. A new era for restocking, stock enhancement and sea ranching of coastal fisheries resources. Reviews in Fisheries Science 16: 1-8.
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Lorenzen, K. 2008. Understanding and managing enhancement fisheries systems. Reviews in Fisheries Science 16: 10-23.
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Stock enhancement books and symposium proceedings
Johann D. Bell, Kenneth M. Leber, H. Lee Blankenship, Neil R. Loneragan, Reiji Masuda and Geraldine Vander Haegen (Editors). 2008. A New Era for Restocking, Stock Enhancement and Sea Ranching of Coastal Fisheries Resources. (Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Stock Enhancement and Sea Ranching) Reviews in Fisheries Science, Volume 16 Issue 1-3. View on-line abstracts...
Leber, K. M., S. Kitada, H.L. Blankenship and T. Svåsand. 2004. Stock Enhancement and Sea Ranching: Developments, Pitfalls and Opportunities. 2nd Edition. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford. 562 pp. Preview at Blackwell's web site for the book
Bartley, D.M. and K.M. Leber, Editors. 2004. Case Studies of the Effectiveness of Stocking Aqucultured Fishes and Invertebrates to Replenish and Enhance Coastal Fisheries. Fishery Technical Paper No. 429. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy. 213 pp. View electronic version...
Nakamura, Y., J.P. McVey, K. Leber, C. Neidig, S. Fox, and K. Churchill, (eds.). 2003. Ecology of Aquaculture Species and Enhancement of Stocks. Proceedings of the Thirtieth U.S. - Japan Meeting on Aquaculture. Sarasota, Florida, 3-4 December. UJNR Technical Report No. 30. Sarasota, FL: Mote Marine Laboratory.
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Population Dynamics and Quantitative Assessment
Hervas, S. K., S. K. Lorenzen, M. A. Shane, and M. A. Drawbridge. 2010. Quantitative assess¬ment of a white seabass Atractoscion nobilis stock enhancement program in California: Post-release dispersal, growth and survival. Fisheries Research 105; 237-243.
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Lorenzen, K. 2006. Population management in fisheries enhancement: gaining key information from release experiments through use of a size-dependent mortality model. Fisheries Research 80: 19-27.
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Medley, P.A.H. and Lorenzen, K. 2006. EnhanceFish: A decision support tool for aquaculture-based fisheries enhancement. Imperial College/DFID. >> read more
Lorenzen, K. 2005. Population dynamics and potential of fisheries stock enhancement: practical theory for assessment and policy analysis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 360: 171-189.
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Lorenzen, K. 1995. Population dynamics and management of culture-based fisheries. Fisheries Management and Ecology 2: 61-73.
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Stakeholder effects on enhancement outcome
Garaway, C.J., Arthur, R.I., Chamsingh, B., Homekingkeo, P., Lorenzen, K., Saengvilaikham, B. and Sidavong, K. 2006. A social science perspective on stock enhancement outcomes: lessons learned from inland fisheries in southern Lao PDR. Fisheries Research 80: 37-45.
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Identifying released hatchery fish
Leber, K. M. and H. L. Blankenship. 2011. How Advances in Tagging Technology Improved Progress in a New Science: Marine Stock Enhancement. American Fisheries Society Symposium 76:1-12.
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Brennan, N. P., K. M. Leber and B. R. Blackburn. 2007. Use of coded-wire and visible implant elastomer tags for marine stock enhancement with juvenile red snapper Lutjanus campechanus. Fisheries Research 83:90-97.
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Brennan, N. P., K. M. Leber, H. L. Blankenship, J. M. Ransier, R. DeBruler, Jr. 2005. An evaluation of coded wire and elastomer tag performance in juvenile common snook under field and laboratory conditions. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25:437-445.
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Tringali, M.D. 2006. A Bayesian approach for the genetic tracking of cultured and released individuals. Fisheries Research 77:159–172.
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Release magnitude effects on growth and survival
Brennan, N.P., C.J. Walters and K.M. Leber. 2008. Manipulations of stocking magnitude: Addressing density dependence in a juvenile cohort of common snook (Centropomus undecimalis). Reviews in Fisheries Science 16:228-241.
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Fairchild, E.A. and W.H. Howell. 2001. Optimal stocking density for juvenile winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 32(3): 300-308.
Leber, K. M., N. P. Brennan, and S. M. Arce. 1995. Marine enhancement with striped mullet: are hatchery releases replenishing or displacing wild stocks? In Uses and effects of cultured fishes in aquatic ecosystems. American Fisheries Society Symposium 15:376-387.
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Release contribution to spawning stocks, offspring & fisheries
Berejikian, Barry A., Thom Johnson, Richard S. Endicott and Joy Lee-Waltermire. 2008. Increases in steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) redd abundance resulting from two conservation hatchery strategies in the Hamma Hamma River, Washington. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 65:754-764.
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Leber, K. M. and S. M. Arce. 1996. Stock enhancement effect in a commercial mullet Mugil cephalus fishery in Hawaii. Fisheries Management and Ecology 3:261-278.
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Cost effectiveness of release strategies
Tringali, M., K.M. Leber, W.G. Halstead, R. McMichael, J. O'Hop, B. Winner, R. Cody, C. Young, C.N. Neidig, H. Wolfe, A. Forstchen, and L. Barbieri. 2008. Marine stock enhancement in Florida: A multi-disciplinary, stakeholder-supported, accountability-based approach. Reviews in Fisheries Science 16:51-57.
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Leber, K. M., R. N. Cantrell and P.S. Leung. 2005. Optimizing cost effectiveness of size at release in stock enhancement programs. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25:1596-1608.
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Size-at-release effects on survival
Lorenzen, K. 2000. Allometry of natural mortality as a basis for assessing optimal release size in fish stocking programmes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 57: 2374-2381.
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Leber, K. M., S. M. Arce, D. A. Sterritt, and N. P. Brennan. 1996. Marine stock-enhancement potential in nursery habitats of striped mullet, Mugil cephalus, in Hawaii. Fishery Bulletin 94(3):452-471.
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Leber, K. M. 1995. Significance of fish size-at-release on enhancement of striped mullet fisheries in Hawaii. Journal World Aquaculture Society 26(2):143-153.
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Willis, S.A., W.W. Falls, C.W. Dennis, D.E. Roberts, and P.G. Whitchurch. 1995. Assessment of season of release and size at release on recapture rates of hatchery-reared red drum. American Fisheries Society Symposium 15:354-365.
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Release habitat and microhabitat effects
Fairchild, E.A., J. Fleck. and W.H. Howell. 2005. Determining an optimal release site for juvenile winter flounder Pseudopleuronectes americanus (Walbaum) in the Great Bay Estuary. NH. USA. Aquaculture Research 36:1374-1383.
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Leber, K. M., N. P. Brennan and S. M. Arce. 1998. Recruitment patterns of juvenile, cultured Pacific threadfin, Polydactylus sexfilis (Polynemidae), released along sandy marine shores in Hawaii. Bulletin of Marine Science 62(2):389-408.
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Release season effects on survival
Leber, K. M., H. L. Blankenship, S. M. Arce, and N. P. Brennan. 1997. Influence of release season on size-dependent survival of cultured striped mullet, Mugil cephalus, in a Hawaiian estuary. Fishery Bulletin, 95(2):267-279.
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Acclimation effects on behavior and survival
Fairchild, E.A., J.A. Sulikowski, N. Rennels, W.H. Howell and P.C.W. Tsang. 2009. Effects of moving acclimation cages before release of cultured fish: alternate release strategies for a juvenile winter flounder Pseudopleuronectes americanus stock enhancement effort. Aquaculture Research (1-5):xx-xx. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2109.2009.02343.x.
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Lee, J.S.F., and B.A. Berejikian. 2009. Structural complexity in relation to the habitat preferences, territoriality, and hatchery rearing of juvenile China rockfish (Sebastes nebulosus). Environ. Biol. Fish. 84:411-419. DOI 10.1007/s10641-009-9450-2.
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Lee, J.S.F., and B.A. Berejikian. 2008. Effects of the rearing environment on average behavior and behavioral variation in steelhead. J. Fish Biol. 72:1736-1749.
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Fairchild, E.A., N. Rennels and W.H. Howell. 2008. Predators are attracted to acclimation cages used for winter flounder stock enhancement. Reviews in Fisheries Science 16:262-168.
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Brennan, N. P., M. C. Darcy and K. M. Leber. 2006. Predator-free enclosures improve post-release survival of stocked common snook. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 335(2): 302-311.
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Behavior of hatchery fish
Lee, J.S.F., B. Berejikian, M.B. Rust, K. Massee, T. Wright, K. Brakensiek, S. Steltzner and H.L. Blankenship. 2011. Movements of hatchery-reared lingcod released on rocky reefs in Puget Sound. Env. Biol. Fish. 92:437-445.
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Lee, J.S.F. and B. Berejikian. 2008. Stability of behavioural correlations but instability of individual behaviour: consequences for rockfish stock enhancement. Env. Biol. Fish. 72:1736-1749.
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Fairchild, E. A. and W. H. Howell. 2004. Factors affecting the post-release survival of cultured juvenile Pseudopleuronectes americanus. Journal of Fish Biology 65 (Supplement A):69-87.
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Ecology and life-history
Elizabeth A. Fairchild, James Sulikowski, Nathan Rennels, W. Huntting Howell and Christopher W.D. Gurshin. 2008. Distribution of winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus, in the Hampton-Seabrook estuary, New Hampshire: Observations from a field study. Estuaries and Coasts. Vol 31:1158-1173.
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Fairchild, E.A. and W.H. Howell. 2000. Predator-prey size relationship between Pseudopleuronectes americanus and Carcinus maenas. Journal of Sea Research 44: 81-90.
Release-transport stress effects
Sulikowski, J. A., E. A. Fairchild, N. Rennels, W. H. Howell, P. CW. Tsang. 2006.
The Effects of Transport Density on Cortisol Levels in Juvenile Winter Flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 37 (1):107-112
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Sulikowski, J. A., E. A. Fairchild, N. Rennels, W. H. Howell and P. CW. Tsang. 2005. The effects of tagging and transport on stress in juvenile winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus: implications for successful stock enhancement. Journal World Aquaculture Society 36: 148-156.
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Conserving genetics of wild stocks
Lorenzen, K., M.C.M. Beveridge and M. Mangel. 2012. Cultured fish: Integrative biology and management of domestication and interactions with wild fish. Biological Reviews 87:639-660.
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Gruenthal, K.M. and M.A. Drawbridge. 2012. Towards responsible stock enhancement: broadcast spawning dynamics and adaptive genetic management in white seabass aquaculture. Evolutionary Applications 5:405-417.
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Tringali, M. D., T. M. Bert, F. Cross, J. W. Dodrill, L . M. Gregg, W. G. Halstead, R. A. Krause, K. M. Leber, K. Mesner, W. Porak, D. Roberts, R. Stout and D. Yeager. 2007. Genetic Policy for the Release of Finfishes in Florida. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute Publication No. IHR-2007-001.
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LeClair, L. L., S. F. Young and J. B. Shaklee, 2006. Allozyme and
microsatellite DNA analysis of lingcod from Puget Sound, Washington and
adjoining waters. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 135:1631-1643.
Tringali, M.D. and K. M. Leber. 1999. Genetic considerations during the experimental and expanded phases of snook stock enhancement. Bull. National Research Institute Aquaculture (Japan) Suppl. 1:109-119.
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Aquaculture technology development
Yanes-Roca, C., N.R. Rhody, M. Nystrom, M.L. Wittenrich, and K.L. Main. 2012. Embryonic and early larval rearing development in hatchery-reared common snook. North American Journal of Aquaculture, published online Sept 26, 2012.
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Yanes-Roca, C. and K.L. Main. 2012. Improving larval culture and rearing techniques. Book Chapter (10) 187-216p in “Aquaculture”, edited by InTech Open access editorial. 2012. ISN # 978-953-307-974-5.
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N.R. Rhody, N.R., N.A. Nassif, and K.L. Main. 2010. Effects of salinity on growth and survival of common snook Centropomus undecimalis (Block, 1972) larvae. Aquaculture Research 41:357-360.
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Wittenrich, M.L., N.R. Rhody, R.G. Turingan and K.L. Main. 2009. Coupling osteological development of the feeding apparatus with feeding performance in larvae of common snook, Centropomus undecimalis: identifying morphological constraints to feeding. Aquaculture 294:221-297.
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Yanes-Roca, C., N. Rhody, M. Nystrom and K.L. Main. 2009. Effects of fatty acid composition and spawning season patterns on egg quality and larval survival in common snook (Centropomus undecimalis). Aquaculture 287(3-4):335-340.
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R.B. Johnson, R.B., M.A. Cook, P.M. Nicklason and M.B. Rust. 2009. Determination of apparent protein digestibility of live Artemia and a microparticulate diet in 8-week-old Atlantic cod Gadus morhua larvae. Aquaculture. 288: 290-298.
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Cook, M.A., R.B. Johnson, P. Nicklason, H. Barnett and M.B. Rust. 2008. Marking Live Feeds With Inert Metal Oxides for Fish Larvae Feeding and Nutrition Studies. Aquaculture Research. 39: 347-353.
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Fairchild, E.A., N. Rennels, W.H. Howell and R.E. Wells. 2007. Gonadal development anddifferentiation in cultured juvenile winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society. 38(1): 114-121.
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M. A. Cook, K. M. Guthrie, M. B. Rust, and P. D. Plesha. 2005. Effects of salinity and temperature during incubation on hatching and development of lingcod, Ophiodon elongatus Girard, embryos. Aquaculture Research 36:1298-1303.
Cook, M. A., R. B. Johnson, and M. B. Rust. 2005. Development of method for determining consumption in marine fish larvae. European Aquaculture Society, Special Publication No. 36, Oostende, Belgium.
Rust, M. B, K. C. Massee, P. Plesha, T. M. Scott, N. Ashton, L. Britt. M. A. Cook, K. Guthrie,and R. Campbell . 2004. Aquaculture of Lingcod. Amercian Fisheries Society Symposium 00:000-000.
Cook, M. A. and M. B. Rust. 2002. The effect of light intensity on development and hatchery success of lingcod, Ophiodon elongatus (Girard), eggs. Aquaculture Research 33:1-6.
Neidig, C.L., D.P. Skapura, H.J. Grier and C.W. Dennis. 2000. Techniques for spawning common snook: broodstock handling, oocyte staging, and egg quality. North American Journal of Aquaculture 62:103-113.
King, N., W.H. Howell, and E. Fairchild. 1998. The effect of stocking density on the growth of juvenile summer flounder, Paralichthys dentatus. UJNR Tech. Rep. No. 26.:173-180
Stock enhancement research and development needs
Leber, K. M. 2004. Marine Stock Enhancement in the USA: Status, trends and needs. Pp 11-24 In Leber, K.M., S. Kitada, T. Svåsand and H.L. Blankenship (eds) Stock Enhancement and Sea Ranching: Developments, Pitfalls and Opportunities. 2nd Edition. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford. 562 pp.
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Leber, K. M. 2002. Advances in marine stock enhancement: shifting emphasis to theory and accountability. Pp 79-90 In Stickney, R. R. and J. P. McVey (eds) Responsible Marine Aquaculture CABI Publishing, New York.
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Leber, K. M. 1999. Rationale for an Experimental Approach to Stock Enhancement. Pages 63-75 in Stock Enhancement and Sea Ranching (Ed. by B.R. Howell, E. Moksness, and T. Svåsand) Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford. 606 pages.
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Stragegic plans for stock enhancement
Blaylock, R. B., Leber, K. M., Lotz, J. M., and D. A. Ziemann. 2000. The U.S. Gulf of Mexico Marine Stock Enhancement Program (USGMSEP): The use of aquaculture technology in "responsible" stock enhancement. Bulletin of the Aquaculture Association of Canada 100(3):16-22.
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Leber, K. M. and W. H. Halstead. 2000. Florida stock enhancement: long range plan for success. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Tallahassee. 7 pp.
Pruder, G.D., D.A. Ziemann, K.M. Leber, J.M. Lotz, W.E. Hawkins and L.D. Conquest. 1999. U.S. Gulf of Mexico marine stock enhancement program: Program management for planning, execution, review and evaluation. Bulletin National Research Institute of Aquaculture, Suppl. 1:89-99.
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Leber, K. M. 1994. Prioritizing Marine Fishes for Stock Enhancement in Hawaii. The Oceanic Institute. Waimanalo, Hawaii. 36 pages.
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