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| 1 | The River Continuum Concept | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1980 | 7,779 |
| 2 | Patterns of Life-History Diversification in North American Fishes: implications for Population Regulation | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1992 | 1,251 |
| 3 | Permutation tests for univariate or multivariate analysis of variance and regression | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 2001 | 1,171 |
| 4 | Microstructure of Fish Otoliths | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1985 | 1,164 |
| 5 | A simple and precise method for measuring ammonium in marine and freshwater ecosystems | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1999 | 1,155 |
| 6 | Larval Size and Recruitment Mechanisms in Fishes: Toward a Conceptual Framework | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1988 | 1,122 |
| 7 | On the Chemical Form of Mercury in Edible Fish and Marine Invertebrate Tissue | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1992 | 1,048 |
| 8 | Implications of Streamflow Variability and Predictability for Lotic Community Structure: A Regional Analysis of Streamflow Patterns | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1989 | 955 |
| 9 | Methods for Nonlethal Gill Biopsy and Measurement of Na+, K+-ATPase Activity | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1993 | 928 |
| 10 | A critical review of methods of studying fish feeding based on analysis of stomach contents: application to elasmobranch fishes | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1997 | 923 |
| 11 | Trophic Relationships in Freshwater Pelagic Ecosystems | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1986 | 876 |
| 12 | Otoliths, increments, and elements: keys to a comprehensive understanding of fish populations? | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 2001 | 833 |
| 13 | Determination of Picogram Levels of Methylmercury by Aqueous Phase Ethylation, Followed by Cryogenic Gas Chromatography with Cold Vapour Atomic Fluorescence Detection | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1989 | 831 |
| 14 | A Method for Comparing the Precision of a Set of Age Determinations | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1981 | 825 |
| 15 | Fish Gill Structural Changes Induced by Toxicants and Other Irritants: A Statistical Review | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1985 | 809 |
| 16 | The Deep Chlorophyll Maximum: Comparing Vertical Profiles of Chlorophyll a | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1982 | 777 |
| 17 | Replacement of Sulfur, Carbon, and Nitrogen in Tissue of Growing Broad Whitefish (Coregonus nasus) in Response to a Change in Diet Traced by δ34S, δ13C, and δ15N | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1993 | 754 |
| 18 | Statistical Power Analysis can Improve Fisheries Research and Management | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1990 | 691 |
| 19 | Comparison of methods to account for autocorrelation in correlation analyses of fish data | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1998 | 680 |
| 20 | Geographical patterns in range extension of Ponto-Caspian macroinvertebrate species in Europe | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 2002 | 654 |
| 21 | A Salicylate–Hypochlorite Method for Determining Ammonia in Seawater | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1980 | 647 |
| 22 | Predicting Cyanobacteria dominance in lakes | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 2001 | 639 |
| 23 | Measuring Nutrient Spiralling in Streams | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1981 | 634 |
| 24 | A Statistical Method for Evaluating the Reproducibility of Age Determination | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1982 | 631 |
| 25 | Effect of Temperature and Size on Development, Mortality, and Survival Rates of the Pelagic Early Life History Stages of Marine Fish | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1991 | 627 |
| 26 | Optimal Environmental Window and Pelagic Fish Recruitment Success in Upwelling Areas | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1989 | 610 |
| 27 | Genetic Effects of Cultured Fish on Natural Fish Populations | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1991 | 597 |
| 28 | A Versatile Growth Model with Statistically Stable Parameters | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1981 | 593 |
| 29 | The nearshore phosphorus shunt: a consequence of ecosystem engineering by dreissenids in the Laurentian Great Lakes | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 2004 | 583 |
| 30 | Phosphorus and Nitrogen Limitation of Phytoplankton Growth in the Freshwaters of North America: A Review and Critique of Experimental Enrichments | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1990 | 581 |
| 31 | How Reliable are Growth Back-Calculations Based on Otoliths? | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1990 | 569 |
| 32 | Pennate Diatom Nitzschia pungens as the Primary Source of Domoic Acid, a Toxin in Shellfish from Eastern Prince Edward Island, Canada | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1989 | 554 |
| 33 | Structure–Toxicity Relationships for the Fathead Minnow, Pimephales promelas: Narcotic Industrial Chemicals | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1983 | 539 |
| 34 | Ecological and Genetic Studies onDreissena polymorpha(Pallas): a New Mollusc in the Great Lakes | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1989 | 522 |
| 35 | Movement, migration, and smolting of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1998 | 521 |
| 36 | Developments in Stream Ecosystem Theory | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1985 | 520 |
| 37 | The cumulative effects of climate warming and other human stresses on Canadian freshwaters in the new millennium | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 2001 | 509 |
| 38 | Dispersal and emerging ecological impacts of Ponto-Caspian species in the Laurentian Great Lakes | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 2002 | 498 |
| 39 | Assessment of the Piscine Micronucleus Test as an in situ Biological indicator of Chemical Contaminant Effects | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1990 | 491 |
| 40 | Is catch-per-unit-effort proportional to abundance? | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 2001 | 491 |
| 41 | What Can Be Learned from the Collapse of a Renewable Resource? Atlantic Cod, Gadus morhua, of Newfoundland and Labrador | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1994 | 490 |
| 42 | Landscape-scale influences on stream habitats and biota | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1996 | 484 |
| 43 | Detecting Ecosystem Responses to Anthropogenic Stress | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1987 | 477 |
| 44 | Importance of Wetlands as Sources of Methyl Mercury to Boreal Forest Ecosystems | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1994 | 470 |
| 45 | The ontogeny of piscivory and its ecological consequences | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1998 | 462 |
| 46 | Beverton and Holt life history invariants result from optimal trade-off of reproduction and survival | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1996 | 449 |
| 47 | Rapid analysis of genetic variation in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) by PCR multiplexing of dinucleotide and tetranucleotide microsatellites | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1996 | 447 |
| 48 | Adaptive Flexibility in the Foraging Behavior of Fishes | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1983 | 444 |
| 49 | Microplastic pollution in St. Lawrence River sediments | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 2014 | 436 |
| 50 | Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) in Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior: History of Invasion and Control, 1936–78 | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1980 | 435 |
