Bryant M. Haley

Crappie (Pomoxis spp.) fisheries are important across much of North America, but most research has focused on management in larger reservoirs. Understanding factors that affect crappie populations in small reservoirs could improve management approaches because manipulation of physicochemical, biological, and morphometric factors may be feasible in these smaller systems. We examined biotic and abiotic features that influence crappie (black crappie P. nigromaculatus and white crappie P. annularis) species dominance, growth, condition, and trap net catch­per­effort...

Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 249 km h?1, made landfall on Puerto Rico on 20 September 2017. The extreme precipitation resulting from this hurricane, combined with already saturated soil and the steep, mountainous terrain of the island, led to historic flooding across most of Puerto Rico. Reservoirs in many of the river systems on the island were preemptively drawn down in an attempt to absorb the volume of floodwaters but were quickly overwhelmed. Since many of these reservoirs had been the focus of previous studies, a rare opportunity arose to evaluate how...