Tag Archives: Trevor Branch

Bevan Symposium on Sustainable Fisheries in Seattle, Washington and online, free and open to the public.

Magnuson-Stevens Act – History and Future Examined  – The Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, Sam Rauch, our Northwest Fisheries Science Center Director, John Stein, and our Senior Scientist for Stock Assessments, Rick Methot, are all on the agenda to speak at the 14th annual Bevan Symposium in Seattle. Held annually at the University of Washington, the focus of this year’s symposium is the Magnuson-Stevens Act and its impending reauthorization. The symposium, which features two full days of presentations and discussions, will be broadcast online April 24-25 from 8am to 5pm PST.  08:15

Books and papers cited most often by fisheries scientists by Trevor Branch

Books and papers cited most often by fisheries scientists – here Methods – I conducted an exhaustive search of potential references on Web of Science, Google Scholar, and through personal contacts, examining reference lists, looking through colleague’s libraries, etc. Based on discovery rates I estimate this list contains >90% of all highly cited references. Read more from Trevor Branch (scroll to bottom of page)  15:59

No fish Left in the Ocean by 2048!!! – Media hype gets you more citations? Well, it did for this fisheries paper. By Dr Bik

pickle snifferMedia hype gets you more citations? Well, it did for this fisheries paper.  Y’all might remember the slight media coverage (ha!) of a very controversial fisheries paper published in 2006:  “Impacts of biodiversity loss on ecosystem services” by Boris Worm and others, Trevor Branch, having long been captivated by fisheries research and having deep knowledge of this Worm et al. controversy, sat back in his chair, pented his fingers, and had an epiphany: “I’ve got it! We should analyze citation patterns for Worm et al. (2006)!” (a written dramatization of possibly real events). So he did. And the results are pretty awesome. continue!