| 1 | Standardizing catch and effort data: a review of recent approaches | Fisheries Research | 2004 | 1,018 |
| 2 | Stock synthesis: A biological and statistical framework for fish stock assessment and fishery management | Fisheries Research | 2013 | 614 |
| 3 | Habitat requirements of Atlantic salmon and brown trout in rivers and streams | Fisheries Research | 2003 | 458 |
| 4 | Ecological risk assessment for the effects of fishing | Fisheries Research | 2011 | 418 |
| 5 | A review of integrated analysis in fisheries stock assessment | Fisheries Research | 2013 | 388 |
| 6 | An holistic approach to fish stock identification | Fisheries Research | 1999 | 384 |
| 7 | Stock identification and its role in stock assessment and fisheries management: an overview | Fisheries Research | 1999 | 378 |
| 8 | Otolith elemental fingerprints as biological tracers of fish stocks | Fisheries Research | 2000 | 364 |
| 9 | Weight-length relationships for 33 fish species in Greek waters | Fisheries Research | 1995 | 362 |
| 10 | GLMs, GAMs and GLMMs: an overview of theory for applications in fisheries research | Fisheries Research | 2004 | 326 |
| 11 | Challenges in the assessment and management of small-scale fisheries in Latin America and the Caribbean | Fisheries Research | 2007 | 312 |
| 12 | Underwater video techniques for observing coastal marine biodiversity: A review of sixty years of publications (1952–2012) | Fisheries Research | 2014 | 306 |
| 13 | A review of homing and straying of wild and hatchery-produced salmon | Fisheries Research | 1993 | 304 |
| 14 | Fish assemblages in Neotropical reservoirs: Colonization patterns, impacts and management | Fisheries Research | 2016 | 273 |
| 15 | A review of the biology of the jumbo squid Dosidicus gigas (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae) | Fisheries Research | 2001 | 272 |
| 16 | Low impact and fuel efficient fishing—Looking beyond the horizon | Fisheries Research | 2012 | 262 |
| 17 | Modelling fish growth: Model selection, multi-model inference and model selection uncertainty | Fisheries Research | 2006 | 260 |
| 18 | Weight-length relationships for selected fish species of the small-scale demersal fisheries of the south and south-west coast of Portugal | Fisheries Research | 1997 | 257 |
| 19 | Artificial reefs and fisheries exploitation: a review of the ‘attraction versus production’ debate, the influence of design and its significance for policy | Fisheries Research | 1997 | 256 |
| 20 | A regime shift in the North Sea circa 1988 linked to changes in the North Sea horse mackerel fishery | Fisheries Research | 2001 | 256 |
| 21 | Is otolith strontium a useful scalar of life cycles in estuarine fishes? | Fisheries Research | 2000 | 254 |
| 22 | rapfish: a rapid appraisal technique to evaluate the sustainability status of fisheries | Fisheries Research | 2001 | 234 |
| 23 | Life history and ecology of the gadoid resources of the Barents Sea | Fisheries Research | 1987 | 232 |
| 24 | Guidance for decisions using the Vector Autoregressive Spatio-Temporal (VAST) package in stock, ecosystem, habitat and climate assessments | Fisheries Research | 2019 | 230 |
| 25 | Remedies for pseudoreplication | Fisheries Research | 2004 | 228 |
| 26 | Specifying divergent migrations in the concept of stock: the contingent hypothesis | Fisheries Research | 1999 | 225 |
| 27 | Global fishing effort (1950–2010): Trends, gaps, and implications | Fisheries Research | 2011 | 220 |
| 28 | Best practices for catch-and-release recreational fisheries – angling tools and tactics | Fisheries Research | 2017 | 220 |
| 29 | Evaluating methods for setting catch limits in data-limited fisheries | Fisheries Research | 2014 | 208 |
| 30 | Testing a new acoustic telemetry technique to quantify long-term, fine-scale movements of aquatic animals | Fisheries Research | 2011 | 206 |
| 31 | Review of the growth regulation processes of otolith daily increment formation | Fisheries Research | 2000 | 204 |
| 32 | Application of the Tweedie distribution to zero-catch data in CPUE analysis | Fisheries Research | 2008 | 201 |
| 33 | Estimation of time-varying selectivity in stock assessments using state-space models | Fisheries Research | 2014 | 200 |
| 34 | The natural control of salmon and trout populations in streams | Fisheries Research | 2003 | 197 |
| 35 | Weight–length relationships of littoral to lower slope fishes from the western Mediterranean | Fisheries Research | 2003 | 188 |
| 36 | Stocks and chameleons: the use of phenotypic variation in stock identification | Fisheries Research | 1999 | 183 |
| 37 | Structure–function relationships in fish otolith organs | Fisheries Research | 2000 | 181 |
| 38 | The condition of fish escaping from fishing gears—a review | Fisheries Research | 1995 | 180 |
| 39 | Modeling shark bycatch: The zero-inflated negative binomial regression model with smoothing | Fisheries Research | 2007 | 180 |
| 40 | Behavioural effects of artificial light on fish species of commercial interest | Fisheries Research | 2005 | 179 |
| 41 | Elemental composition of otoliths as a stock delineator in fishes | Fisheries Research | 1999 | 176 |
| 42 | Stock complexity in fisheries management: a perspective of emerging issues related to population sub-units | Fisheries Research | 1999 | 169 |
| 43 | Forage fauna in the diet of three large pelagic fishes (lancetfish, swordfish and yellowfin tuna) in the western equatorial Indian Ocean | Fisheries Research | 2007 | 167 |
| 44 | A passive integrated transponder (PIT) tag system for monitoring fishways | Fisheries Research | 1996 | 165 |
| 45 | The utility of image processing techniques for morphometric analysis and stock identification | Fisheries Research | 1999 | 163 |
| 46 | Identification of shark and ray fins using DNA barcoding | Fisheries Research | 2009 | 163 |
| 47 | VMStools: Open-source software for the processing, analysis and visualisation of fisheries logbook and VMS data | Fisheries Research | 2012 | 163 |
| 48 | Parasites as biological tags for stock discrimination of marine fish: a guide to procedures and methods | Fisheries Research | 1998 | 162 |
| 49 | Estimation of reef fish length by divers and by stereo-video | Fisheries Research | 2002 | 161 |
| 50 | Small scale fisheries in Europe: A comparative analysis based on a selection of case studies | Fisheries Research | 2013 | 155 |