Joseph Hightower
Professor Emeritus
Area(s) of Expertise
Anadromous fishes, rivers, migration, telemetry, fish population dynamics, stock assessment.
Publications
- An integrated tagging and catch-curve model reveals high and seasonally-varying natural mortality for a fish population at low stock biomass , Fisheries Research (2020)
- Coupling acoustic tracking with conventional tag returns to estimate mortality for a coastal flatfish with high rates of emigration , Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (2020)
- Using Acoustic Telemetry to Estimate Weakfish Survival Rates along the U.S. East Coast , Marine and Coastal Fisheries (2020)
- Evaluation of Fish Passage at a Nature-Like Rock Ramp Fishway on a Large Coastal River , TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY (2019)
- Survival and Density of a Dominant Fish Species Across a Gradient of Urbanization in North Carolina Tidal Creeks , Estuaries and Coasts (2019)
- A non-invasive approach to enumerating White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus Richardson, 1863) using side-scan sonar , JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY (2018)
- Juvenile and Adult Striped Bass Mortality and Distribution in an Unrecovered Coastal Population , NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES MANAGEMENT (2018)
- Relative importance of fishing and natural mortality for spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus) estimated from a tag-return model and corroborated with survey data , FISHERIES RESEARCH (2018)
- An integrated tagging model to estimate mortality rates of Albemarle Sound - Roanoke River striped bass , CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES (2017)
- Estimating Fish Mortality Rates Using Telemetry and Multistate Models , FISHERIES (2017)