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Session proposal submission is now open for the 2024 Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawai'i, September 15-19. Submit your ideas for symposia, innovative sessions, and continuing education courses by February 23, 2024.

With wild steelhead numbers declining in many parts of North America, a dilemma between providing angling opportunity and wild steelhead conservation can develop. This study shows that encounter rate plays a larger role than mortality regarding catch-and-release angling on overall impact rates. This method provides a direct, reliable estimate of encounter rates across multiple scales.

Overall, this study characterized the growth and mortality of the western Gulf of Mexico King Mackerel stock, which is largely underrepresented in the stock assessment. The authors suggest the Richards growth model rather than the typical von Bertalanffy growth model may be better suited for estimating King Mackerel growth and should be explored for future stock assessments.

Intensively monitored watershed (IMW) studies, the intent of which is to quantify habitat restoration effects on salmonid populations, have been underway in the Pacific Northwest, USA, for more than two decades. Lack of population-level response to habitat improvements by target species in some IMWs may be related to incomplete knowledge of factors regulating fish abundance, excessively prolonged restoration application periods, underappreciation of natural environmental and population variability, failure to carry out restoration at a sufficiently large scale within a watershed, lack of sufficient time to document a posttreatment response, or an actual failure of the restoration activities in those locations to achieve population recovery objectives.