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Publications are sorted by author last name:

• Katie Andrews
• Rob Cheshire
• Lew Coggins
• Kevin Craig
• Eric Fitzpatrick
• Jennifer Potts
• Amy Schueller
• Kyle Shertzer
• Erik Williams

 

KATIE ANDREWS

• Andrews, K.I., Mangel, M. 2012. Accepted to Fisheries Research. Asymptotic size and natural mortality of long-lived fishes for data poor stock assessments.
  
  
• Raborn, S.W., Gallaway, B.J., Cole, J.G., Gazey, W.J., and Andrews, K.I. In press. N. Am. J. Fish. Man. Effects of Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) on the bycatch of small coastal sharks in the Gulf of Mexico penaeid shrimp fishery.
  
  
• Baremore, I.E., Bethea, D.M, and K.I. Andrews. 2012. Gillnet selectivity for juvenile blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus), Fish. Bull. 110:230-241pp.
  
  
• Jiao, Y., Cortes, E., Andrews, K. I., and F. Guo. 2011. Poor-data and data-poor species stock assessment using a Bayesian hierarchical approach, Ecol. Appl. 7: 2691-708pp.
  
  
• Baremore, I.E., Andrews, K.I., and L.F. Hale. 2009. Difficulties associated with modeling growth in the Atlantic angel shark (Squatina dumeril). Fisheries Research 99:203-209.
  
  
• Levin, P. S., Kaplan, I., Grober-Dunsmore, R., Chittaro, P. M., Oyamada, S., Andrews, K.I., and M. Mangel. 2009. A framework for assessing the biodiversity and fishery aspects of marine reserves. Journal of Applied Ecology 46:735-742.
  
  
• Siegfried (former name), K. I. and B. Sansó (2006). "Two Bayesian methods for estimating parameters of the von Bertalanffy growth equation." Env. Biol Fish 77: 301-308.
  
  

 

ROB CHESHIRE

• Powell, A. B. and LaCroix, M. W. and Cheshire, R. T. 2002. An evaluation of Northern Florida Bay as a nursery area for red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, and other juvenile and small resident fishes. Beaufort, NC, NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service/Southeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC, 485.

• Powell, A.B., R.T. Cheshire, E.H. Laban, J. Colvocoresses, P O’Donnell, and M. Davidian. 2004. Growth, mortality, and hatchdate distributions of larval and juvenile spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus) in Florida Bay, Everglades National Park. Fishery Bulletin, 102:142-155.

• Powell, A. B. and Lacroix, M. W. and Cheshire, R. T. and Thayer, G. W. 2006. Life History, Diet, Abundance and Distribution, and Length-Frequencies of Selected Invertebrates in Florida Bay, Everglades National Park, Florida. Beaufort, NC, NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service/Southeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC, 542.

• Powell, A. B. and Thayer, G. and Lacroix, M. and Cheshire, R. 2007. Juvenile and small resident fishes of Florida Bay, a critical habitat in the Everglades National Park, Florida. Seattle, WA, NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA Professional Paper NMFS, 6.

 

LEW COGGINS

• Walters, C.J., B. van Poorten, and L.G. Coggins. 2012. Bioenergetics and population dynamics of flannelmouth sucker (Catostomus latipinnus) and bluehead sucker (Catostomus discolobus) in Grand Canyon as evidenced from tag recapture observations. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 141:158-173.

• Pine, W.E., III, J. E. Hightower, L.G. Coggins, Jr, M. Lauretta, and K. H. Pollock. In Press.  Chapter 12: Design and analysis considerations for tagging experiments. /in/ A. Zale and T. Sutton.  Fisheries Techniques, 3rd Edition.  American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.

• Coggins, L.G., Jr., M.D. Yard, and W.E. Pine, III.  2011.  Non-native fish control in the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, Arizona: an effective program or serendipitous timing?  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 140:456-470.

• Yard, M.D., L.G. Coggins, Jr. C.V. Baxter, and J. Korman.  2011. Foraging ecology of non-native trout in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon: predation on native fishes and the effects of turbidity.  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 140:471-486.

• Melis, T.S., Hamill, J.F., Bennett, G.E., Coggins, L.G., Jr., Grams, P.E., Kennedy, T.A., Kubly, D.M., and Ralston, B.E., eds., 2010. Proceedings of the Colorado River Basin Science and Resource Management Symposium, November 18–20, 2008, Scottsdale, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010–5135, 372 p.

• Coggins, L.G., Jr. and M.D. Yard.  2010.  Mechanical removal of non-native fish in the Colorado River within Grand Canyon.  in (eds): Melis, T.S., Hamill, J.F., Bennett, G.E., Coggins, L.G., Jr., Grams, P.E., Kennedy, T.A., Kubly, D.M., and Ralston, B.E., eds., 2010. Proceedings of the Colorado River Basin Science and Resource Management Symposium, November 18–20, 2008, Scottsdale, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010–5135, 372 p.

• Coggins, L.G., Jr and W.E. Pine, III.  2010.  Development of a temperature-dependent growth model for the endangered humpback chub using mark-recapture data  The Open Fish Science Journal.

• Korman, J., M. Yard, C. Walters, and L.G. Coggins, Jr.  2009.  Effects of fish size, habitat, flow, and density on capture probabilities of age-0 rainbow trout estimated from electrofishing at discrete sites in a large river.  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 138: 58-75.

• Coggins, L.G., Jr., M.J. Catalano, M.S. Allen, W.E. Pine, III, and C.J. Walters.  2007.  Effects of cryptic mortality and the hidden costs of using length limits in fishery management.  Fish and Fisheries 8:196-210.

• Coggins, L.G., Jr., W.E. Pine, III, C.J. Walters, and S.J.D. Martell.  2006. Age structured mark recapture analysis (ASMR): a VPA based model for analyzing age structured capture-recapture data.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 26:201-205.

• Coggins, L.G., Jr., W.E. Pine, III, C.J. Walters, D.R. Van Haverbeke, D. Ward, and H.C. Johnstone.  2006. Abundance trends and status of the Little Colorado River population of Humpback Chub.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 26:233-245.

• Paukert, C.P., L.G. Coggins, Jr, and C.E. Flaccus. 2006.  Distribution and movement of humpback chub in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, based on recaptures.  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 135: 539-544.

• Melis, T.S., S.J.D. Martell, L.G. Coggins, Jr., W.E. Pine, III, and M.E. Andersen.  2006. Adaptive management of the Colorado River ecosystem below Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona: using science and modeling to resolve uncertainty in river management.  In Proceedings of the American Water Resources Association, 2006.

• Gloss, S.P. and L.G. Coggins, Jr. 2005.  Fishes of Grand Canyon.  in S.P. Gloss, J.L. Loviich, and T.S. Melis, eds. The state of the Colorado River ecosystem in Grand Canyon: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1282, 220p.

• Yard, M.D., G.E. Bennett, Steve N. Mietz, L.G. Coggins, Jr., L.E. Stevens, S. Hueftle, D.W. Blinn.  2005.  Influence of topographic complexity on solar insolation estimates for the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, AZ.  Ecological Modelling 183: 157-172.

• Carlson, S.R., L.G. Coggins, Jr., and C.O. Swanton. 1998.  A simple stratified design for mark–recapture estimation of salmon smolt runs.  Alaska Fisheries Research Bulletin. 5:88-102.

• Coggins, L.G., Jr. and T.J. Quinn, II.  1998.  A computer simulation of the effects of sample size and ageing error on estimates of sustained yield.  in (eds): F. Funk, T.J. Quinn II, J. Heifetz, J.N. Ianelli, J.E. Powers, J.F. Schweigert, P.J. Sullivan, and C.I. Zhang.   Fishery Stock Assessment Models. AK Sea Grant, Fairbanks, AK. AK-SG-98-01

 

KEVIN CRAIG

• Craig, JK and SA Bosman. 2011. Small spatial scale variation in fish assemblage structure in the vicinity of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone. Estuaries and Coasts (in review).

• Huang, L, LAB Nichols, JK Craig, and MD Smith. 2012. Measuring welfare losses from hypoxia: The case of North Carolina brown shrimp. Marine Resource Economics, 27:3-23.

• Craig, JK. 2012. Aggregation on the edge: Effects of hypoxia avoidance on the spatial distribution of shrimp and demersal fishes in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 445:75-95.

• Craig, JK, PC Gillikin, MA Magelnicki, and LN May, Jr. 2010. Habitat use of cownose rays (Rhinoptera bonasus) in a highly productive, hypoxic continental shelf ecosystem. Fisheries Oceanography 19:301-317.

• Huang, L, MD Smith, and JK Craig. 2010. Quantifying the economic effects of hypoxia on a shrimp fishery. Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management and Ecosystem Science 2:232-248.

• Qian, SS, JK Craig, MM Baustian, NN Rabalais. 2009. Bayesian hierarchical modeling approach for analyzing observational data from marine ecological studies. Marine Pollution Bulletin 58:1916-1921.

• KA Rose, SE Sable, AT Adamack, CA Murphy, SE Kolesar, JK Craig, DL Breitburg, P Thomas, MH Brouwer, and CF Cerco. 2009. Does hypoxia have population-level effects on coastal fish? Musings from the virtual world. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 381:S188-S203.

• Baustian, MM, JK Craig, NN Rabalais, SS Qian. 2009. Effects of summer hypoxia on macrobenthos and Atlantic croaker foraging selectivity in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 381:S31-S37.

• EL Hazen, JK Craig, CP Good, and LB Crowder. 2009. Vertical distribution of fish biomass in hypoxic waters on the Gulf of Mexico shelf. Marine Ecology Progress Series 375:195-207.

• DL Breitburg, JK Craig, RS Fulford, KA Rose, WR Boynton, D Brady, BJ Ciotti, RJ Diaz, KD Friedland, JD Hagy, DR Hart, AH Hines, ED Houde, SE Kolesar, SW Nixon, JA Rice, DH Secor, and TE Targett. 2009. Nutrient enrichment and fisheries exploitation: interactive effects on estuarine living resources and their management. Hydrobiologia 629:31-47.

• Craig, JK, JA Rice, LB Crowder, DA Nadeau. 2007. Density-dependent growth and survival in juvenile estuarine fishes: an experimental approach with spot (Leiostomus xanthurus). Marine Ecology Progress Series 343:251-262.

• Craig, JK, BJ Burke, LB Crowder, and JA Rice. 2006. Prey growth and size-dependent predation in juvenile estuarine fishes: Experimental and model analyses. Ecology 87:2366-2377.

• Craig, JK, and LB Crowder. 2005. Hypoxia-induced habitat shifts and energetic consequences in Atlantic croaker and brown shrimp on the Gulf of Mexico shelf. Marine Ecology Progress Series 294:79-94.

• Craig, JK, LB Crowder, and TL Henwood. 2005. Spatial distribution of brown shrimp (Farfantepenaeus aztecus) on the northwestern Gulf of Mexico shelf: Effects of abundance and hypoxia. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62:1295-1308.

• Craig, JK, CJ Foote, and CC Wood. 2005. Countergradient variation in carotenoid use between sympatric morphs of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) identifies hybrids in the wild by their spawning color. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 84:287-305.

• CA Stow, SS Qian, and JK Craig. 2005. Declining threshold for hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. Environmental Science and Technology 39:716-723.

• Craig, JK, CD Gray,CM McDaniel, TL Henwood, and JG Hanifen. 2001. Ecological effects of hypoxia on fish, sea turtles, and marine mammals in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Pp. 269-291 in N.N. Rabalais and R.E. Turner (editors), Coastal Hypoxia: Consequences for Living Resources and Ecosystems. Coastal and Estuarine Studies 58, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.

• Craig, JK, and CJ Foote. 2001. Countergradient variation and secondary sexual color:  Phenotypic convergence promotes genetic divergence in carotenoid use between sympatric anadromous and nonanadromous morphs of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). Evolution 55:380-391.

• Craig, JK, and LB Crowder. 2000. Factors influencing habitat selection in fishes with a review of marsh ecosystems. Pp. 241-266 in M. Weinstein and D.A. Kreeger (editors), Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands.

• Foote CJ, K Moore, K Stenburg, JK Craig, JK Wenburg, and CC Wood. 1999. Genetic differentiation in gillraker number and length in sympatric anadromous and nonanadromous morphs of sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka. Environmental Biology of Fishes 54:263-274.

 

ERIC FITZPATRICK

• Goodman, MA, PB Conn, and EE Fitzpatrick. 2011. Seasonal occurrence of cownose rays (Rhinoptera bonasus) in North Carolina’s estuarine and coastal waters. Estuaries and Coasts 34: 640-651.

 

JENNIFER POTTS

• Burton, M. L., J. C. Potts, and D. R. Carr. 2012. Age, growth and natural mortality of rock hind, Epinephelus adscensionis, from the Gulf of Mexico. Bull. Mar. Sci. 89(4):903-917.
  
  
• Palazón-Frenandez, J.L., J.C. Potts, C. S. Manooch, III, and C. Sarasquete. 2010. Age, growth, and mortality of toadfish, Halobatrachus didactylus (Schneider, 1901) (Pisces: Batrachoididae), in the Bay of Cádiz (southwestern Spain). Scientia Marina 74(1):121-130.
  
  
• Rudershausen, P. J., E. H. Williams, J. A. Buckel, J. C. Potts, and C. S. Manooch, III. 2008. Comparison of reef fish catch per unit effort and total mortality between the 1970s and 2005-2006 in Onslow Bay, North Carolina. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 137(5):1389-1405.
  
  
• Garcia, E. R., J. C. Potts, R. A. Rulifson, and C. S. Manooch III. 2003. Age and growth of yellowtail snapper, Ocyurus chrysurus, from the southeastern United States. Bulletin of Marine Science. Potts, J. C., and K. Brennan. 2003. Trends in catch data for fifteen species of reef fish landed along the southeastern United States. Report to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council
  
  
• Potts, J. C., and C. S. Manooch, III. 2002. Estimated ages of red porgy (Pagrus pagrus) from fishery-dependent and fishery-independent samples and comparison of growth parameters. Fishery Bulletin 100:81-89.
  
  
• Potts, J. C. 2002. A large bulleye, cookeolus japonicus (Family Priacanthidae), caught off North Carolina. Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science 118:35-37.
  
  
• Potts, J. C. 2002. Retirement of Charles S. Manooch, III for service to National Marine Fisheries Service. Fisheries 27(9):29.
  
  
• Potts, J. C., and K. Brennan. 2002. Trends in catch data for fifteen species of reef fish landed along the southeastern United States. Report to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council.
  
  
• Potts, J. C., and C. S. Manooch, III. 2001. Differences in the age and growth of white grunt from North Carolina and South Carolina versus southern Florida. Bulletin of Marine Science 68:1-12.
  
  
• Potts, J. C. 2001. Summary of fishery data and population status of warsaw grouper and speckled hind landed in the U. S. South Atlantic. Report to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council.
  
  
• Potts, J. C., and K. Brennan. 2001. Trends in catch data and static SPR values for fifteen species of reef fish landed along the southeastern United States. Report to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council
  
  
• Vaughan, D.S., C. S. Manooch III and J. C. Potts. 2001. Assessment of the wreckfishfishery on the Blake Plateau. Island in the Stream: Oceanography and Fisheries of the Charleston Bump. American Fisheries Society Symposium 25:105-120.
  
  
• Potts, J. C. 2000. Population assessment of two stocks of white grunt, Haemulon plumieri, from the southeastern coast of the United States. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-442, 67p.
  
  
• Potts, J. C. 2000. Population assessment of two stocks of white grunt, Haemulon plumieri, from the southeastern coast of the United States. Report to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council.
  
  
• Potts, J. C., and K. Brennan. 2000. Trends in catch data for fifteen species of reef fish landed along the southeastern United States. Report to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council.
  
  
• Potts, J. C., and C. S. Manooch, III. 1999. Observations on the age and growth of graysby and coney from the southeastern United States. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 128:751-757.
  
  
• Huntsman, G. R., J. C. Potts, R. W. Mays, and D. S. Vaughan. 1999. Grouper (Serranidae, Epinephelinae): Endangered apex predators of reef communities. American Fisheries Society Symposium 23:217-231.
  
  
• Manooch, C. S., III, and J. C. Potts. 1999. Federal laboratory at Beaufort opened 100 years ago to "provide income for coastal families and place food on the tables of those living great distances from the ocean" - a history of fishery research at the Beaufort Laboratory. The Beaufort Gam, Vol. 3:16 April 22, 1999, Beaufort, NC.
  
  
• Potts, J. C. 1998. Age and growth of vermilion snapper, Rhomboplites aurorubens, from the southeastern United States. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 127:787-795.
  
  
• Vaughan, D. S., C. S. Manooch, III, and J. C. Potts. In review. Stock Assessment of wreckfish Polyprion americanus from the U.S. south Atlantic. Charleston Bump Colloquium, Special Publication of the American Fisheries Society.
  
  
• Manooch, C. S., III, J. C. Potts, D. S. Vaughan, and M. L. Burton. 1998. Population assessment of the red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, from the southeastern United States. Fisheries Research 735:1-14.
  
  
• Manooch, C. S., III, J. C. Potts, M. L. Burton, and P. J. Harris. 1998. Population assessment of the scamp, Mycteroperca phenax, from the southeastern United States. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-410, 57p.
  
  
• Manooch, C. S., III, J. C. Potts, M. L. Burton, and D. S. Vaughan. 1998. Population assessment of the vermilion snapper, Rhomboplites aurorubens, from the southeastern United States. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-411, 59p.
  
  
• Potts, J. C. 1997. Age and growth of vermilion snapper, Rhomboplites aurorubens, from the southeastern United States. Master's thesis. East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.
  
  
• Manooch, C. S., III, and J. C. Potts. 1997. Age and growth of red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, collected from North Carolina through east coast of Florida. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Society 113(3):111-122.
  
  
• Manooch, C.S., III, and J.C. Potts. 1997. Age, growth, and mortality of greater amberjack from the southeastern U.S. Fisheries Research 30:229-240.
  
  
• Manooch, C. S., III, and J. C. Potts. 1997. Age and growth of greater amberjack from the Gulf of Mexico. Bulletin of Marine Science 61(3):671-68
  
  
• Manooch, C.S., III, and J.C. Potts. 1996. Growth characteristics of the spottail pinfish, Diplodus holbrooki, off North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 112:7-9.
  
  
• Potts, J. C., and C. S. Manooch, III. 1995. Age and growth of red hind and rock hind collected form North Carolina through the Dry Tortugas, Florida. Bulletin of Marine Science. 56:784- 794.
  
  
• Huntsman, G. R., R. W. Mays, and J. C. Potts. 1994. A Preliminary Assessment of the Populations of Seven Species of Grouper (Serranidae, Epinephelinae) in the Western Atlantic Ocean from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina to the Dry Tortugas, Florida. Eds. M. H. Goodwin and G. T. Waugh. Proceedings - Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute. No. 43, p. 193-216.
  
  

 

AMY SCHUELLER

• Schueller, AM, and DB Hayes. 2011. Inbreeding and allele retention for lake sturgeon populations under different supplementation strategies.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management 31: 1133-1145.
  
  
• Schueller, AM, and DB Hayes. 2011. Minimum viable population size for lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) using an individual-based model of demographics and genetics.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 68: 62-73.
  
  
• Schueller, AM, and DB Hayes. 2010. Sensitivity of lake sturgeon population dynamics and genetics to demographic parameters. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 139:521-534.
  
  
• Schueller, AM, MJ Hansen, and SP Newman. 2008. Modeling the sustainability of walleye populations in northern Wisconsin lakes.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management 28:1916-1927.
  
  
• Schueller, AM, MJ Hansen, SP Newman, and CJ Edwards. 2005. Density dependence of walleye maturity and fecundity in Big Crooked Lake, Wisconsin, 1997-2003. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25: 841-847.
  
  

 

KYLE SHERTZER

• Fitzhugh, GR, KW Shertzer, GT Kellison, and DM Wyanski. 2012. Review of size- and age-dependence in batch spawning: implications for stock assessment of fish species exhibiting indeterminate fecundity. Fishery Bulletin 110(4): 413-425.
  
  
• Lynch, PD, KW Shertzer, and RJ Latour. 2012. Performance of methods used to estimate indices of abundance for highly migratory species. Fisheries Research 125/126:27−39.
  
  
• Sunda, WG and KW Shertzer. 2012. Modeling ecosystem disruptive algal blooms: Positive feedback mechanisms. Marine Ecology Progress Series 447:31−47.
  
  
• Shertzer, KW and PB Conn. 2012. Spawner-recruit relationships of marine demersal fishes: prior distribution of steepness. Bulletin of Marine Science. 88:39−50.
  
  
• Adamski, KM, JA Buckel, KW Shertzer, G Bath Martin, and JC Taylor. 2011. Developing fishery-independent indices of abundance of larval and juvenile gag (Mycteroperca microlepis) in the southeast United States. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 140:973−983.
  
  
• Vaughan, DS, JJ Govoni, and Shertzer, KW. 2011. The relation of gulf menhaden recruitment with Mississippi River flow: model development and potential application for management. Marine and Coastal Fisheries 3:344−352.
  
  
• Morris, JA, KW Shertzer, and JA Rice. 2011. A stage-based matrix population model of invasive lionfish with implications for control. Biological Invasions 13:7−12.
  
  
• Shertzer, KW, MH Prager, and EH Williams. 2010. Probabilistic approaches to setting acceptable biological catch and annual catch targets: Reconciling methodology with National Standards Guidelines. Marine and Coastal Fisheries 2:451−458.
  
  
• Fieberg, JR, KW Shertzer, PB Conn, KV Noyce, and DL Garshelis. 2010. Integrated population modeling of black bears in Minnesota: Implications for monitoring and management. PLoS One 5(8):e12114.
  
  
• Conn, PB, EH Williams, and KW Shertzer. 2010. When can we reliably estimate the productivity of fish stocks? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 67:511−523.
  
  
• Prager, MH and KW Shertzer. 2010. Deriving acceptable biological catch from the overfishing limit: Implications for assessment models. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 30:289-294.
  
  
• Prager, MH and KW Shertzer. 2010. Remembering the future: a commentary on “Intergenerational discounting: a new intuitive approach” (reprinted). In The Economics of Sustainable Development (eds. J Lasry, D Lautier, and D Fessler). Economica Ltd.
  
  
• Shertzer, KW, EH Williams, and JC Taylor. 2009. Spatial structure and temporal patterns in a large marine ecosystem: Exploited reef fishes of the southeast United States. Fisheries Research 100:126−133.
  
  
• Sunda, WG, KW Shertzer, and DR Hardison. 2009. Ammonium uptake and growth models in marine diatoms: Monod and Droop revisited. Marine Ecology Progress Series 386:29−41.
  
  
• Taylor, JC, WA Mitchell, JA Buckel, HJ Walsh, KW Shertzer, G Bath Martin, and JA Hare. 2009. Relationships between larval and juvenile abundance of winter-spawned fishes in North Carolina, USA. Marine and Coastal Fisheries 1:12-21.
  
  
• Shertzer, KW, MH Prager, and EH Williams. 2008. A probability-based approach to setting annual catch levels. Fishery Bulletin 106:225-232.
  
  
• Shertzer, KW and EH Williams. 2008. Fish assemblages and indicator species: reef fishes off the southeastern United States. Fishery Bulletin 106:257-269.
  
  
• Brooks, EN, KW Shertzer, T Gedamke, and DS Vaughan. 2008. Stock assessment of protogynous fish: Evaluating measures of spawning biomass used to estimate biological reference points. Fishery Bulletin 106:12-23.
  
  
• Shertzer, KW, MH Prager, DS Vaughan, and EH Williams. 2008. Fishery models. Encyclopedia of Ecology. (eds. SE Jorgensen and B Fath). Elsevier.
  
  
• Vaughan, DS, KW Shertzer, and JW Smith. 2007. Gulf menhaden (Brevoortia patronus) in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico: Fishery characteristics and biological reference points for management. Fisheries Research 83:263−275.
  
  
• Shertzer, KW and MH Prager. 2007. Delay in fishery management: diminished yield, longer rebuilding, and increased probability of stock collapse. ICES Journal of Marine Science 64:149−159.
  
  
• Prager, MH and KW Shertzer. 2006. Remembering the future: A commentary on “Intergenerational discounting: a new intuitive approach.” Ecological Economics 60:24−26.
  
  
• Williams, EH and KW Shertzer. 2005. Effects of fishing on growth traits: A simulation analysis. Fishery Bulletin 103:392−403.
  
  
• Fussmann, GF, SP Ellner, NG Hairston Jr., LE Jones, KW Shertzer, and T Yoshida. 2005. Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of experimental plankton communities. In Advances in Ecological Research: Population Dynamics and Laboratory Ecology (ed. R. Desharnais).Academic Press.
  
  
• Prager, MH and KW Shertzer. 2005. An introduction to statistical algorithms for stock composition analysis.  In Stock Identification Methods (eds. SX Cadrin, KD Friedland, and J Waldman). Academic Press.
  
  
• Prager, MH, CE Porch, KW Shertzer, and JF Caddy. 2003. Targets and limits for management of fisheries: a simple probability-based approach. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23:349−361.
  
  
• Williams, EH and KW Shertzer. 2003. Implications of life-history invariants for biological reference points used in fishery management. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 60:710−720.
  
  
• Shertzer, KW and MH Prager. 2002. Least median of squares: a suitable objective function for stock assessment models? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 59:1474−1481.
  
  
• Shertzer, KW and SP Ellner. 2002. State-dependent energy allocation in variable environments: life history evolution of a rotifer. Ecology 83:2181−2193.
  
  
• Shertzer, KW and SP Ellner. 2002. Energy storage and the evolution of population dynamics. Journal of Theoretical Biology 215:183−200.
  
  
• Shertzer, KW, SP Ellner, GF Fussmann, and NG Hairston Jr. 2002. Predator-prey cycles in an aquatic microcosm: testing hypotheses of mechanism. Journal of Animal Ecology 71:802−815.
  
  
• Fussmann, GF, SP Ellner, KW Shertzer, and NG Hairston Jr. 2000. Crossing the Hopf bifurcation in a live predator−prey system. Science 290:1358−1360.
  
  

 

ERIK WILLIAMS

• Shertzer, K.W., M.H. Prager, and E.H. Williams. 2010. Probabilistic Approaches to Setting Acceptable Biological Catch and Annual Catch Targets for Multiple Years: Reconciling Methodology with National Standards Guidelines. Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science 2:451-458.
  
  
• Hare, J.A., M.A. Alexander, M.J. Fogarty, E.H. Williams, and J.D. Scott. 2010. Forecasting the dynamics of a coastal fishery species using a coupled climate-population model. Ecological Applications 20(2):452-464.
  
  
• Conn, P.B., E.H. Williams, and K.W. Shertzer. 2010. When can we reliably estimate the productivity of fish stocks? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 67:511-523.
  
  
• Rudershausen, P.J., W.A. Mitchell, J.A. Buckel, E.H. Williams, and E. Hazen. 2010. Developing a two-step fishery-independent design to estimate the relative abundance of deepwater reef fish: Application to a marine protected area off the southeastern United States coast. Fisheries Research 105:254-260.
  
  
• Shertzer, K.W., E.H. Williams, and J.C. Taylor. 2009. Spatial structure and temporal patterns in a large marine ecosystem: Exploited reef fishes of the southeast United States. Fisheries Research 100 (2009): 126-133.
  
  
• Rudershausen, P.J., E.H. Williams, J.A. Buckel, J.C. Potts, and C.S. Manooch, III. 2008. Comparison of reef fish catch-per-unit-effort and total mortality between 1970s and 2005-06 in Onslow Bay, NC. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137:1389-1405.
  
  
• Shertzer, K.W., M.H. Prager, D.S. Vaughan, and E.H. Williams. 2008. Fishery Models. In Sven Erik Jørgensen and Brian D. Fath (Editor-in-Chief), Population Dynamics. Vol. [2] of Encyclopedia of Ecology, 5 vols. pp. [1582-1593] Oxford: Elsevier.
  
  
• Shertzer, K.W. and E.H. Williams. 2008. Fish assemblages and indicator species: Reef fishes off the southeastern United States. Fishery Bulletin 106:257-269.
  
  
• Shertzer, K.W., M.H. Prager, and E.H. Williams. 2008. A probability-based approach to setting annual catch levels. Fishery Bulletin 106:225-232.
  
  
• Rudershausen, P.J., J.A. Buckel, and E.H. Williams. 2007.  Discard composition and release fate in the snapper/grouper commercial hook and line fishery, North Carolina. Fisheries Management and Ecology 14:103-113.
  
  
• Braun-McNeill, J., S.P. Epperly, D.W. Owens, L.A. Avens, E. Williams, and C.A. Harms. 2007. Seasonal reliability of testosterone radioimmunoassay (RIA) for predicting sex ratios of juvenile loggerhead (Caretta caretta) turtles. Herpetologica 63(3): 275–284.
  
  
• Williams, E.H. and K.W. Shertzer. 2005. Effects of fishing on growth traits: A simulation analysis. Fishery Bulletin 103:392-403.
  
  
• Prager, M.H., and E. H. Williams. 2004. From the Golden Age to the New Industrial Age: Fishery Modeling in the Early 21st Century. Natural Resource Modeling. 16(4):477-489.
  
  
• Williams, E. H., and K. W. Shertzer. 2003. Implications of life-history invariants for biological reference points used in fisheries management. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 60:710-720.
  
  
• Williams, E. H., and S. Ralston.  2002. Distribution and co-occurrence of rockfishes (Family Sebastidae) over trawlable shelf and slope habitats of California and southern Oregon. Fishery Bulletin 100:836-855.
  
  
• Williams, E. H.,and M. H. Prager. 2002. Comparison of equilibrium and nonequilibrium estimators of the generalized production model. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 59:1533-1552.
  
  
• Williams, E. H.2002. The effects of unaccounted discards and mis-specified natural mortality on estimates of spawner-per-recruit based harvest policies. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 22(1):311-325.
  
  
• Williams, E. H.2001. Assessment of cobia, Rachycentron canadum, in the waters of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-469.
  
  
• Williams, E.H., and T.J. Quinn, II. 2000. Pacific herring, Clupea pallasi, recruitment in the Bering Sea and Northeast Pacific Ocean: I. Relationships among different populations. Fisheries Oceanography 9(4):285-299.
  
  
• Williams, E.H., and T.J. Quinn, II. 2000. Pacific herring, Clupea pallasi, recruitment in the Bering Sea and Northeast Pacific Ocean: II. Relationships to environmental variables and implications for forecasting. Fisheries Oceanography 9(4):300-315.
  
  
• Williams, E. H., and T. J. Quinn, II. 1998. A parametric bootstrap of catch-age compositions using the Dirichlet distribution. In: Fishery stock assessment models, Funk et al. (eds.), Alaska Sea Grant College Program, Report No. AK-SG-98-01, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1998.
  
  
• Williams, E. H., and T. J. Quinn, II. 1998. Age-structured analysis of Pacific herring from Norton Sound, Alaska. Alaska Fishery Research Bulletin 4(2):87-109.