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Fishery Management & Aquatic Conservation Lab


We study fisheries management, aquatic conservation, & decision making at Mississippi State University (R)

Fishery Management & Aquatic Conservation Lab


We study fisheries management, aquatic conservation, & decision making at Mississippi State University (R)

You Aren't the Same as Before?!

Rapid Supplanting of New Virulent Aeromonas Strain in Catfish

Posted on January 11, 2019

Post by Brad Richardson.— Aeromonas hydrophila is a bacterium that causes illness in a wide range of organisms. However, in 2009, a new strain of this bacteria (ML09-119) was isolated from a series of disease outbreaks in channel catfish aquaculture farms of Alabama. The disease spread across the state of... [Read More]
Tags: catfish aeromonas aquaculture

Gar co-occurrence

Occupancy of four gar species in river-floodplain habitats: is there evidence for competitive exclusion and habitat mediated co-existence?

Posted on January 2, 2019

Check out recently accepted abstract for a talk to be given at the Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society annual meeting held at the Moody Gardens Hotel and Conference Center on Galveston Island, Texas from January 24-27, 2019. [Read More]
Tags: gar abstracts species co-occurrence

Spatial polygons

How to make and sample a polygon

Posted on December 15, 2018

Generating sampling points in a polygon, like a lake can be done in R. Alternatively it can be done in a GIS like ARCgis, but I find that I use GIS so infrequently that I often forget how to do all the mouse clicks to replicate the process. Additionally, folks... [Read More]
Tags: sampling R bluff lake

Thesis defense!

Giancarlo Coppola successfully defended his thesis

Posted on December 12, 2018

Giancarlo put on a great show in his thesis defense. His presentation was a nice use of video in his presentation to communicate the methods used and concepted evaluated. [Read More]
Tags: mud flats enid plants

New publication!

Evaluating pallid sturgeon monitoring approaches

Posted on November 15, 2018

New peer-reviewed publication out. This publication documents the structured decision making process we used to identify stakeholder objectives for a large scale monitoring program for Missouri River pallid sturgeon. Certainly was an undertaking and the outcomes of the process are documented in the report that can be found here. [Read More]
Tags: pallid sturgeon missouri river monitoring
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