Ecosystem-based fisheries management is a crucial advancement to address natural and anthropogenic stressors on marine ecosystems. Although there has been a shift toward more holistic management approaches over the past few decades, Fishery Management Councils still face challenges in implementing ecosystem-based strategies. Here, we present a case study on incorporating harmful algal blooms, known as red tides, into U.S. fede...

Parasitism is widespread among fishes in nature and can have significant impacts on individuals, populations, and communities. The family Cymothoidae includes over 380 species of parasitic isopods that infect a wide variety of host fishes, mostly in tropical and subtropical oceans. Despite their conspicuous nature, spatiotemporal patterns of infestation and effects on hosts have been studied for only a small percentage of spec...

Reliable extraction of dolphin whistle contours is fundamental for scalable analyses of vocal identity, repertoire structure, and individual‐based acoustic monitoring. We evaluated four algorithms for fundamental frequency estimation of common bottlenose dolphin ( Tursiops truncatus ) whistles, leveraging a benchmark dataset of annotated whistles from known animals to assess performance across individuals and as a function of...

Accurate estimates of age, growth and maturation are fundamental to fisheries assessment, conservation and the development of emerging aquaculture species. However, life‐history parameters can vary within species and may be influenced by factors such as sexual dimorphism, which is often poorly quantified in non‐commercial or understudied species. The monkeyface prickleback ( Cebidichthys violaceus ), one of the largest herbivo...