Fish Monitoring and Stock Assessment for Fishery Management

A special issue of Fishes (ISSN 2410-3888). This special issue belongs to the section "Fishery Economics, Policy, and Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 492

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South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou 510300, China
Interests: fish biology; climate change; stock assessment; fisheries management
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South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Interests: marine fish communities;marine plankton; remote sensing;global change
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Interests: cephalopoda; habitat patterns; spatiotemporal distribution

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Fish monitoring and stock assessment are fundamental to effective fishery management, ensuring the sustainable use of aquatic resources and the conservation of biodiversity. With increasing pressures on global fisheries from overexploitation, climate change, and habitat degradation, advancing monitoring technologies and assessment methodologies are becoming critical for informed decision-making and sustainable management practices.
This Special Issue focuses on the latest advancements in fish monitoring and stock assessment, aiming to provide innovative approaches and tools for supporting sustainable fishery management. We welcome submissions that include original research studies, reviews, short notes, and perspectives on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

  • Development and application of advanced fish survey and monitoring technologies, such as environmental DNA (eDNA), remote sensing, and acoustics.
  • Novel methodologies for fish stock assessment and population dynamics modelling.
  • Applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in fish monitoring, stock assessment, and fishery management for data analysis and decision-making.
  • Integration of monitoring data into ecosystem-based fishery management.
  • Approaches for assessing the impacts of climate change and human activities on fish stocks.
  • Case studies demonstrating the application of monitoring and assessment techniques in fishery management.

We look forward to your contributions to this important and rapidly evolving field.

Dr. Kui Zhang
Dr. Jiajun Li
Dr. Jiangtao Fan
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • fish survey and monitoring technology
  • fisheries management
  • remote sensing
  • environmental DNA (eDNA)
  • acoustics

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The Age and Growth of One Population of Diaphus watasei (Jordan & Starks, 1904) in the South China Sea
by Kui Zhang, Han Tian, Yan’e Jiang, Shannan Xu, Jiangfeng Zhu, Junyi Zhang, Jun Zhang and Zuozhi Chen
Fishes 2025, 10(11), 538; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes10110538 - 22 Oct 2025
Abstract
We estimated, for the first time, the age of Diaphus watasei (Jordan & Starks, 1904) in the South China Sea (SCS) based on otolith microstructure. According to one-way ANOVA, differences were not observed between the sexes with regard to standard length, body mass, [...] Read more.
We estimated, for the first time, the age of Diaphus watasei (Jordan & Starks, 1904) in the South China Sea (SCS) based on otolith microstructure. According to one-way ANOVA, differences were not observed between the sexes with regard to standard length, body mass, or age. Based on 137 specimens, the sex ratio and relationship between standard length and body mass was 1.32:1 (male/female) and W = 0.0000433L2.78 (r2 = 0.923), respectively. The von Bertalanffy model was fitted as Lt = 171.38 [1 − exp(−0.00206(t − 3.82))], r2 = 0.645 (n = 92), which indicated a maximum growth rate of 0.356 mm/day. The speculated birth date of the 92 specimens of D. watasei occurred across almost all months of the year. Full article
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