| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Assessment of Biotic Integrity Using Fish Communities | Fisheries | 1981 | 1,987 |
| 2 | Pacific Salmon at the Crossroads: Stocks at Risk from California, Oregon, Idaho, and Washington | Fisheries | 1991 | 895 |
| 3 | Conservation Status of Freshwater Mussels of the United States and Canada | Fisheries | 1993 | 799 |
| 4 | Nonindigenous Crayfishes Threaten North American Freshwater Biodiversity: Lessons from Europe | Fisheries | 2000 | 754 |
| 5 | Instream Flow Regimens for Fish, Wildlife, Recreation and Related Environmental Resources | Fisheries | 1976 | 744 |
| 6 | Conservation Status of Imperiled North American Freshwater and Diadromous Fishes | Fisheries | 2008 | 682 |
| 7 | An Exotic Nematode Parasite of the American Eel | Fisheries | 1999 | 661 |
| 8 | Canada's Recreational Fisheries: The Invisible Collapse? | Fisheries | 2002 | 563 |
| 9 | Marine Fisheries at a Critical Juncture | Fisheries | 1993 | 553 |
| 10 | Fisheries Sustainability via Protection of Age Structure and Spatial Distribution of Fish Populations | Fisheries | 2004 | 540 |
| 11 | Extinctions of North American Fishes During the past Century | Fisheries | 1989 | 525 |
| 12 | MesoHABSIM: A concept for application of instream flow models in river restoration planning | Fisheries | 2001 | 499 |
| 13 | Wildfire and Native Fish: Issues of Forest Health and Conservation of Sensitive Species | Fisheries | 1997 | 492 |
| 14 | Ecological Impacts of Nonnative Freshwater Fishes | Fisheries | 2011 | 447 |
| 15 | Influences of Watershed Land Use on Habitat Quality and Biotic Integrity in Wisconsin Streams | Fisheries | 1997 | 437 |
| 16 | A Hierarchical Approach to Classifying Stream Habitat Features | Fisheries | 1993 | 382 |
| 17 | Review of Largemouth Bass Virus | Fisheries | 2003 | 372 |
| 18 | A Reassessment of the Conservation Status of Crayfishes of the United States and Canada after 10+ Years of Increased Awareness | Fisheries | 2007 | 345 |
| 19 | Assessment of Needs for Education Opportunities in Fisheries Genetics | Fisheries | 1994 | 331 |
| 20 | An Ecological Perspective of Riparian and Stream Restoration in the Western United States | Fisheries | 1997 | 307 |
| 21 | The Collapse of Pelagic Fishes in the Upper San Francisco Estuary: El Colapso de los Peces Pelagicos en La Cabecera Del Estuario San Francisco | Fisheries | 2007 | 307 |
| 22 | Diversity, Distribution, and Conservation Status of the Native Freshwater Fishes of the Southern United States | Fisheries | 2000 | 296 |
| 23 | Inverse Production Regimes: Alaska and West Coast Pacific Salmon | Fisheries | 1999 | 294 |
| 24 | Pacific Salmon Carcasses: Essential Contributions of Nutrients and Energy for Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems | Fisheries | 1999 | 294 |
| 25 | Fishes of North America Endangered, Threatened, or of Special Concern: 1989 | Fisheries | 1989 | 284 |
| 26 | An Estimation of Historic and Current Levels of Salmon Production in the Northeast Pacific Ecosystem: Evidence of a Nutrient Deficit in the Freshwater Systems of the Pacific Northwest | Fisheries | 2000 | 281 |
| 27 | Burrowing, Emergence, Behavior, and Functional Morphology of the Australian Salamanderfish,Lepidogalaxias salamandroides | Fisheries | 1989 | 270 |
| 28 | Management of Sharks and Their Relatives (Elasmobranchii) | Fisheries | 2000 | 254 |
| 29 | Native Invasions, Homogenization, and the Mismeasure of Integrity of Fish Assemblages | Fisheries | 2001 | 250 |
| 30 | Are Better Anesthetics Needed in Fisheries? | Fisheries | 1985 | 247 |
| 31 | A Review of Tagging Methods for Estimating Fish Population Size and Components of Mortality | Fisheries | 2003 | 247 |
| 32 | Importance of Snag Habitat for Animal Production in Southeastern Streams | Fisheries | 1985 | 230 |
| 33 | Understanding Angler Motivations in Fisheries Management | Fisheries | 1994 | 223 |
| 34 | A Field Information-based System for Estimating Fish Temperature Tolerances | Fisheries | 1995 | 222 |
| 35 | Status of Anadromous Salmon and Trout in British Columbia and Yukon | Fisheries | 1996 | 215 |
| 36 | The Creation of the First Public Salmon Hatchery in the United States | Fisheries | 2000 | 215 |
| 37 | Ten Commandments for Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Scientists | Fisheries | 2007 | 215 |
| 38 | Dispelling Some Myths about Hatcheries | Fisheries | 1999 | 214 |
| 39 | Fish Traits: A Database of Ecological and Life‐history Traits of Freshwater Fishes of the United States | Fisheries | 2009 | 212 |
| 40 | Criteria to Define Extinction Risk in Marine Fishes: The American Fisheries Society Initiative | Fisheries | 1999 | 209 |
| 41 | Conservation Status of Crayfishes of the United States and Canada | Fisheries | 1996 | 208 |
| 42 | Artificial Reefs: The Importance of Comparisons with Natural Reefs | Fisheries | 1997 | 208 |
| 43 | Climate Change Effects on North American Inland Fish Populations and Assemblages | Fisheries | 2016 | 205 |
| 44 | Regional Applications of an Index of Biotic Integrity for Use in Water Resource Management | Fisheries | 1988 | 204 |
| 45 | Recent and Future Demand for Walleye in North America | Fisheries | 1996 | 203 |
| 46 | Do Artificial Reefs Increase Regional Fish Production? A Review of Existing Data | Fisheries | 1997 | 198 |
| 47 | The Development of Advanced Hydroelectric Turbines to Improve Fish Passage Survival | Fisheries | 2001 | 198 |
| 48 | Standard Sampling of Inland Fish: Benefits, Challenges, and a Call for Action | Fisheries | 2002 | 198 |
| 49 | No-take Reserve Networks: Sustaining Fishery Populations and Marine Ecosystems | Fisheries | 1999 | 196 |
| 50 | The Ecological and Cultural Importance of a Species at Risk of Extinction, Pacific Lamprey | Fisheries | 2002 | 194 |
