Giant Sea Bass (Stereolepis gigas)
Giant Sea Bass are the largest bony fish in the kelp forests of southern California. After suffering severe population declines due to overfishing, they were protected, and are now showing signs of recovery. During my PhD, I studied the trophic and movement ecology of these fish using stable isotope analysis and acoustic telemetry.
- Blincow et al. (2022) - Giant appetites: exploring the trophic ecology of California’s largest kep forest predator, the giant sea bass Stereolepis gigas.
- Blincow et al. (2023) - Spatial ecology of the Giant Sea Bass, Stereolepis gigas, in a southern California kelp forest as determined by acoustic telemetry.
- Check out the PeerJ Spotlight Blog Post on this study here.
Multispecies Recreational Fisheries
Fisheries constitute extremely complex social-ecological systems, which makes predicting their responses to climate change difficult. Using landings data from a multispecies recreational fishery in southern California, we constructed networks of causal interactions between species landings that demonstrate that such interactions within the fishery will likely become more complex with warming sea surface temperatures.
Seafood Trade
Growth in the volume and complexity of global seafood trade has created an increasing disconnect between the sustainability of a country’s seafood production and their seafood consumption. In this study we explore differences between country-specific sustainability of produced versus consumed seafood, finding that some of the most sustainable producers are simultaneously consumers of some of the least sustainable seafood as a result of trade.