• Recreational fisheries management
• Water quality management and ecosystem restoration
• Ecology of the Atchafalaya River Basin
• Essential Fish Habitat and coastal marsh restoration
• Habitat relationships of larval, juvenile, and adult fishes
• Invertebrate community – aquatic habitat relationships
• Ecology and population status of Louisiana fishes of concern
• Aquatic plant community dynamics
• Watershed land uses and stream community dynamics

Fisheries Faculty

Allen Rutherford -Director and Bryant A. Bateman Professor of Renewable Natural Resources

Megan LePayre – Assistant Unit Leader, Louisiana Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

Bill Kelso - F.O. Bateman and Professor of Renewable Natural Resources

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Graduate Studies Program

Theses/Dissertations
1992-2001
2002-2005

Publications