Fish and Fisheries adopts a broad, interdisciplinary approach to the subject of fish biology, fisheries and aquaculture. It draws contributions in the form of major synoptic papers and syntheses or meta-analyses that lay out new approaches, re-examine existing findings, methods or theory, and discuss papers and commentaries from diverse areas. Focal areas include fish palaeontology, molecular biology and ecology, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, ecology, behaviour, evolutionary studies, conservation, assessment, population dynamics, mathematical modelling, ecosystem analysis and the social, economic and policy aspects of fisheries and aquaculture where they are grounded in a scientific approach. 

A paper in Fish and Fisheries must draw upon all key elements of the existing literature on a topic, normally have a broad geographic and/or taxonomic scope, and provide general points which make it compelling to a wide range of readers whatever their geographical location. So, in short, we aim to publish articles that make syntheses of old or synoptic, long-term or spatially widespread data, introduce or consolidate fresh concepts or theory, or, in the Ghoti section, briefly justify preliminary, new synoptic ideas. Please note that authors of submissions not meeting this mandate will be directed to the appropriate primary literature.

Editors

Professor Robert Arlinghaus
Humboldt University of Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
Berlin, Germany
10117
e-mail:  arlinghaus@igb-berlin.de

Professor Gary R. Carvalho
Bangor University
Bangor
Gwynedd, UK
LL59 2UQ
e-mail:  faf.editormolecular@bangor.ac.uk

Professor Paul J B Hart
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester, UK
LE1 7RH
e-mail: pbh@leicester.ac.uk

Professor Tony J Pitcher
Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies,
6331 Crescent Road
Vancouver
BC, Canada
V6T 1Z2
e-mail: pitcher.t@gmail.com

Managing Editor
Susan Hart
e-mail:  smh.faf@googlemail.com

Editorial Board
Dr Kevern Cochrane - Rhodes University - South Africa
Dr William W.L. Cheung - University of British Columbia - Canada
Dr Nick Dulvy - Simon Fraser University - Canada
Professor Einar Eg Nielsen - Technical University of Denmark - Denmark
Dr Lorenz Hauser - University of Washington - USA
Professor Ray W. Hilborn - University of Washington - USA
Professor Mike Kaiser - Bangor University - UK
Professor Steven J. Kennelly - IC Independent Consulting - Australia
Professor Jens Krause - Humboldt University & Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
Professor John F. Leatherland - University of Guelph - Canada
Dr Ole Arve Misund - The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) - Norway
Dr Jennifer Ovenden - The University of Queensland - Australia
Dr Yvonne Sadovy - The University of Hong Kong - Hong Kong
Dr Rashid Sumalia - University of British Columbia - Canada