To incorporate research from across the globe, I will pick 3 geographic regions and review literature regarding recent applied fish conservation research (to narrow research down, I may restrict my scope to species in the Salmonidae family). These different regions and their respective bodies tasked with fish management place emphasis on several different areas, and a review of successful applied research from one country may benefit another. Scotland’s salmon farming aquaculture programs are not as large scale as some other operations but are intensely monitored and tweaked for maximum yield, economic viability, and environmental impacts while Japan’s river restoration programs since the 1950’s may have had significant impacts to the population of returning adults each year to Hokkaido’s many streams and rivers (Morita, et. al 2006). Each place has its own successes and failures, and a broad knowledge of these stories will hopefully be beneficial to future fish conservation by identifying areas of improvement.
- North America (USA esp. OR, WA, AK, HI; and Canada)
- East Asia (Japan; South Korea)
- Western Europe (UK esp. Scotland; Coastal Countries).
Morita, Kentaro, et al. “A review of Pacific salmon hatchery programmes on Hokkaido Island, Japan.” ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil63.7 (2006): 1353-1363.