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Passage and Harvest of River Herring at the Mactaquac Dam, Saint John River: An Attempt at Active Fishery Management
Author(s) -
Jessop B. M.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
north american journal of fisheries management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1548-8675
pISSN - 0275-5947
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8675(1990)010<0033:pahorh>2.3.co;2
Subject(s) - alewife , fishery , alosa , herring , hydroelectricity , stock (firearms) , dam removal , fisheries management , geography , fishing , fish migration , ecology , fish <actinopterygii> , biology , sediment , archaeology , paleontology
Active management of fishery resources is a persuasive concept, the implementation of which may hasten learning about stock‐recruitment relationships and benefit resource users through the maintenance of optimally sized, more stable stocks. The management of large stocks of river herring–alewife Alosa pseudoharengus and blueback herring Alosa aestivalis –returning to a hydroelectric dam on a large river demonstrated that implementation of active management may be difficult for economic and political reasons, amongst others.