Peter B. Moyle: Book Reviews & Op-eds

  1. Moyle, P. B. 2021. Review of Multispecies and Watershed Approaches to Freshwater Fish Conservation. Edited by D. C.  Dauwalter, T.W. Birdsong, and G.P, Garrett. 2019. American Fisheries Society Symposium 91, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Quarterly Review of Biology 96: 59-60. https://doi.org/10.47886/9781934874578.
  2. Moyle, P. B. 2021. Review of From Catastrophe to Recovery: Stories of Fishery Management Success. Edited by C. C. Kreuger, William W. Taylor, and So-Jung Youn, 2020 American Fisheries Society. Quarterly Review of Biology 96: 60-61. https://doi.org/10.47886/978193487455.
  3. Moyle, P. B. 2020. Book Review: Estuaries and Fishes in Southern Africa: a legacy of knowledge. South African Journal of Science 116(3/4), article #7654. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2020/765.
  4. Moyle, P. B. 2020. Review of Trout and Char of the World, Jeffrey L. Kershner, Jack E. Williams, Roberet E. Gresswell, and Javier Lobón Cerviá, editors. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland. 2019. 831 pages. Fisheries 45:283. https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10406.
  5. Mount, J. and 29 others. 2018. Managing droughts in a changing climate: four essential reforms. PPIC report, September 2018. 28 pages. https://www.ppic.org/publication/managing-drought-in-a-changing-climate-four-essential-reforms.
  6. Moyle, P. B. 2017. Review of C. Dewees, A Life among Fishes: The Art of Gyotaku. Fisheries 42(12): 665. https://doi.org/10.1080/03632415.2017.1391575.
  7. Mount, J., Chappelle, C., Gray, B., Hanak, E., Lund, J., Cloern, J., Fleenor, W., and P. B. Moyle. 2016. California’s water: The Sacramento San Joaquin Delta. Public Policy Institute of California Water Policy Center. October 2016. http://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-water-the-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta/.
  8. Montgomery, J., Durand, J. R., and P. B. Moyle. 2015. Zooplankton biomass and chlorophyll-a trends in the North Delta Arc: two consecutive drought years. IEP Newsletter 28(3): 14-23. 
  9. Young, M. J., K. M. Perales, J. R. Durand, and P. B. Moyle. 2015. Fish Distribution in the Cache Slough Complex of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta during Drought. IEP Newsletter 28(3):23-29. 
  10. Williamson, B. O., O’Rear, T. J., De Carion, D., Durand, J., and P. B. Moyle. 2015. Fishes of the Nurse-Denverton Slough Complex: Managed Wetlands and Tidal Waterways in Suisun Marsh. IEP Newsletter 28(3): 29-35. 
  11. Hanak, E., Mount, J., Chappelle, C., Lund, J., Medellín-Azuara, J., Moyle, P. B., and N. Seavy. 2015. What If California’s Drought Continues? Water Policy Center, Public Policy Institute of California. https://www.ppic.org/publication/what-if-californias-drought-continues/.
  12. Mount, J., Hanak, E., Chappelle, C., Gray, B., Moyle, P. B., Thompson, B., and J. Lund. 2015a. Policy Priorities for Managing Drought. Public Policy Institute of California. https://www.ppic.org/publication/policy-priorities-for-managing-drought/.
  13. Mount, J., Hanak, E., Lund, J., Eadie, J., Gray, B., Moyle, P. B., Seavy, N., Szeptycki, L., and J. Viers. 2015b. “California’s Water: Water for the Environment.” Public Policy Institute of California. https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-water-water-for-the-environment/.
  14. Mount, J., Hanak, E., Chappelle, C., Colby, B., Frank, R., Gartrell, G., Gray, B., Kenney, D., Lund, J., Moyle, P. B., and L. Szeptycki. 2015. Improving the Federal Response to Western Drought: Five Areas for Reform. Public Policy Institute of California. https://www.ppic.org/publication/improving-the-federal-response-to-western-drought-five-areas-for-reform/.
  15. Durand, J. and P. B. Moyle. 2015. San Francisco Estuary: time for a reconciliation approach to species conservation. International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research, Hydrolink 1(4): 16-17. https://www.iahr.org/library/infor?pid=20534.
  16. Lund, J. and P. B. Moyle. 2015. How to discourage water wars: don’t give away water. San Francisco Chronicle. March 20, 2015. https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/How-to-discourage-water-wars-don-t-give-away-6146700.php.
  17. Carmona-Catot, G. and P. B. Moyle. 2013. Re-establishment of the natural life histories of Eagle Lake rainbow trout, USA.  Pages 21-25 in Soorae, P. S., ed., Global Re-introduction Perspectives: 2013. Further case studies from around the globe. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN SSC Re-introduction Specialist Group and Abu Dhabi, UAE: Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi. https://portals.iucn.org/library/node/30535.
  18. Hanak, E., Lund, J., Durand, J., Fleenor, W., Gray, B., Medellín-Azuara, J.,  Mount, J., Moyle, P. B., Phillips, C., and B. Thompson. 2013. Stress Relief: Prescriptions for a Healthier Delta Ecosystem. San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California. www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1051.
  19. Hanak, E., Phillips, C., Lund, J., Durand, J. Mount, J., and P. B. Moyle. 2013. Scientist and Stakeholder Views on the Delta Ecosystem. San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California. www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1051.
  20. Mount, J., Bennett, W., Durand, J., Fleenor, W., Hanak, E., Lund, J. and P. B. Moyle. 2012. Aquatic ecosystem stressors in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California. https://www.ppic.org/publication/aquatic-ecosystem-stressors-in-the-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta/.
  21. Moyle, P. B. 2012. Review of An entirely synthetic fish: how rainbow trout beguiled America and overran the world, by Anders Halverson. Quarterly Review of Biology 87: 168. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/665463.
  22. Moyle, P. B. 2011. Review of  Community ecology of stream fishes: concepts, approaches, and techniques, edited by K.B. Gido and D. A. Jackson. Quarterly Review of Biology 86: 339. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/662464.
  23. Hanak, E., Lund, J., Dinar, A., Gray, B., Howitt, R., Mount, J., Moyle, P. B., and B. Thompson. 2011. Managing California's Water from Conflict to Reconciliation. Executive Summary. San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California. https://www.ppic.org/publication/managing-californias-water-from-conflict-to-reconciliation/
  24. Siegel, S., Bachand, P., Gillenwater, D., Chappell, S., Wickland, B., Rocha, O., Stephenson, M., Heim, W., Enright, C., Moyle, P. B., Crain, P., Downing, B. and B. Bergamaschi. 2011. Final Evaluation Memorandum, Strategies for Resolving Low Dissolved Oxygen and Methylmercury Events in Northern Suisun Marsh. Prepared for the State Water Resources Control Board, Sacramento, California. SWRCB Project Number 062835520. May 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1834/23686.
  25. García-Berthou, E. & P. B. Moyle. Rivers. 2011. In Simberloff D. & Rejmánek M., eds., Encyclopedia of invasive introduced species. University of California Press, Berkeley. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520264212/encyclopedia-of-biological-invasions.
  26. Moyle, P. B. and García-Berthou, E. Fish. 2011. In Simberloff D. & Rejmánek M., eds., Encyclopedia of invasive introduced species. University of California Press, Berkeley. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520264212/encyclopedia-of-biological-invasions.
  27. Fleenor, W. E., Bennett, W. A., Moyle, P. B., and J. R. Lund. 2010. On developing prescriptions for freshwater flows to sustain desirable fishes in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Report to State Water Resources Control Board from Center for Watershed Sciences. February 15, 2010.
  28. Moyle, P. B., Bennett, W. A., Dahm, C., Durand, J. R., Enright, C., Fleenor, W. E., Kimmerer, W., and J. R. Lund. 2010. Changing ecosystems: a brief ecological history of the Delta. Report to State Water Resources Control Board from Center for Watershed Sciences. February 15. 2010. https://cawaterlibrary.net/document/changing-ecosystems-a-brief-ecological-history-of-the-delta/.
  29. Yoshiyama, R. M. and P. B. Moyle. 2010. Historical review of Eel River anadromous salmonids, with emphasis on Chinook salmon, coho salmon and steelhead.  Report for California Trout. Center for Watershed Sciences. University of California, Davis.
  30. O’Rear, T. A. and P. B. Moyle. 2010. Long term and recent trends of fishes and invertebrates in Suisun Marsh. IEP Newsletter 23(2): 26-49.
  31. Hanak, E., Lund, J., Dinar, A., Gray, B., Howitt, R., Mount, J., Moyle, P. B., and B. Thompson. 2009. California water myths. Public Policy Institute of California. https://www.ppic.org/publication/california-water-myths/.
  32. Lund, J., Moyle, P. B., and E. Hanak. 2009. Daunting task, but Delta issues remain manageable. Op-Ed, Sacramento Bee. August 23, 2009. https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/rs_archive/pubs/report/R_1209EHR.pdf.
  33. Moyle, P. B., Durand, J. R., and W. A. Bennett. 2009. Change needed for a better Delta. Op-Ed, Sacramento Bee. May 8, 2009. https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/rs_archive/pubs/report/R_612JMR.pdf.
  34. Moyle, P. B. Protecting migration routes. 2008. Letter (solicited). Issues in Science and Technology 83(summer): 13, 15. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43314674.
  35. Moyle, P. B. Serpentine haiku. 2008. California Coast and Ocean 24(2): 40.
  36. Moyle P. B. 2008. Native fish are dying out, but it’s not too late. Op-Ed Redding Record-Searchlight. November 23, 2008.
  37. Moyle, P. B. 2008. Let’s make a future for California’s fish. Op-Ed, Sacramento Bee. November 23, 2008. A15. 
  38. Kimmerer, W., Brown, L., Culberson, S., Moyle, P. B., Nobriga, M., and J. Thompson. 2008. Aquatic ecosystems. Pages 55-72 in M. Healey, M. Dettinger, and R. Norgaard, eds, The State of Bay-Delta Science 2008. CALFED Science Program, Sacramento. https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/docs/cmnt081712/dfg/cdfghealey2008.pdf.
  39. Moyle, P. B. and R. Sitts. 2008. A simple solution to help salmon. Op-Ed. Sacramento Bee. August 9, 2008. A15.
  40. Moyle, P. B. 2008. Review of: Analysis and interpretation of freshwater fisheries data, by C. S. Guy and M. L. Brown. Quarterly Review of Biology 83: 203-204. https://www3.epa.gov/region1/npdes/merrimackstation/pdfs/ar/AR-1242.pdf.
  41. Moyle, P. B. and J. Kitzhaber. 2008. Protecting healthiest remaining salmon ecosystems. Op-Ed. Sacramento Bee. June 14, 2008. B7. https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/salmon.pdf.
  42. Grosholz, T., Williams, S., and P. B. Moyle. 2008. Quagga-mire in California. Op-Ed. San Diego Union-Tribune. January 18, 2008.
  43. Hansen, C. H., Landis, P., Luce, B., McBain, S., Mitchill, D., Moyle, P. B., and M. Schmitt. 2007. Recommendations on restoring spring-run Chinook salmon to the Upper San Joaquin River. San Joaquin River Restoration Program. Fresno, CA. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/habitat-conservation/san-joaquin-river-restoration.
  44. Bugg, R. L. and P. B. Moyle. 2006. Making a precarious perch more secure: Central Valley farm ponds for native fish conservation. Sustainable Agriculture 18(3): 8. http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/newsltr/v18n3/v18n3.pdf.
  45. Noss, R. F., J. F. Franklin, W.L. Baker, T. Schoennagel, and P. B. Moyle. 2006. Ecology and Management of fire-prone forests in the western United States. Society for Conservation Biology, North American Section. 
  46. Moyle, P. B. 2006. Review of Freshwater Fishes of Mexico by Robert Rush Miller. Quarterly Review of Biology 81: 296. http://www.nativefishlab.net/library/textpdf/15301.pdf.
  47. Moyle, P. B. 2006. Burned logs aid forest ecology. Op-Ed. Sacramento Bee. May 16, 2006.
  48. Moyle, P. B. 2006. Op-Ed. San Francisco Chronicle. May 16, 2006.
  49. Opperman, J. and P. B. Moyle.  2005. A conceptual model for floodplain restoration. Flood Management Association News 15(4): 7-10. 
  50. Moyle, P. B. 2004. Review of Snakehead: fish out of water by Jay Dolan. Copeia 2004: 710-711. https://doi.org/10.1643/OT-04-144.
  51. Opperman, J., J. F. Mount, and P. B. Moyle. 2004. The rivers tell us how to reduce the flood peril. Op-Ed. Sacramento Bee. April 25, 2004. 
  52. Cohen, A. N. and P. B. Moyle. 2004. Summary of data and analyses indicating that exotic species have impaired the beneficial uses of certain California waters – a report submitted to the State Water Resources Control Board on June 14, 2004.  San Francisco Estuary Institute, Oakland, CA. https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/86086/n24f1pmd/.
  53. Moyle, P. B. 2003. Review of Candiru: life and legend of bloodsucking catfishes by Stephen Spotte. Fisheries 28(1): 43. https://doi.org/10.1086/380033.
  54. Moyle, P. B. and J. F. Mount. 2003. Endangered Species Act at work in Klamath Basin. Op-Ed. Sacramento Bee. December 28, 2003. E5.
  55. Moyle, P. B.  2003. Eagle Lake rainbow trout: survivors in a troubled habitat. Streamkeepers Log 104: 4.
  56. Moyle, P. B. 2003. Goose Lake redband trout: high desert survivors. Streamkeepers Log 103: 6. https://caltrout.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Goose-Lake-redband-final.pdf.
  57. Moyle, P. B. 2003. Many native fish in Cache Creek. Davis Enterprise. June 1, 2003.
  58. Moyle, P. B.  2000. Aliens in fresh water. Review of R. Claudi and J. H. Leach, eds., Non-indigenous freshwater organisms: vectors, biology, and impacts.  Ecology 81: 2945-2946. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/177356.
  59. Moyle, P. B. 2000. Connecting the land to the sea: anadromous fishes. Pages 46-47 in R. A. Abell and 10 others. Freshwater Ecoregions of North America: a Conservation Assessment. Island Press, Washington D.C. https://portals.iucn.org/library/node/47786.
  60. Viers, S. D., P. A. Opler, D. S. Gilmer, D. M. Graber, T. Graham, L. S. Huckaby, M. R. Jennings, K. McEachern, P. B. Moyle, and R. A. Stephanie. 1998.  California. Pages 593-609 in M. J. Mac, P. A. Opler, C. E. Puckett Haecker, and P. D. Doran., eds., Status and trends of the nation’s biological resources.  USDI-USGS, Reston, VA.
  61. Moyle, P. B.  1998.  Channelization (p. 121) and Dams, effects of (p. 170) in P. Calow, ed., Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
  62. Moyle, P. B.  1998.  Review of “Web of Water: Life in Redwood Creek” by M. Khosla.  California Coast and Ocean 14 (1): 39.
  63. Moyle, P. B.  1998.  Review of “Fisheries Conservation and Management” by M. R. Ross.  Copeia 1998: 252.
  64. Moyle, P. B.  1997.  The importance of a historical perspective: fish introductions. Fisheries 22(10): 15.
  65. Moyle, P. B, T. Roelofs, and C. Frissell. 1997. What dispute over coho salmon? Op-Ed. Cascadia Times + several other newspapers. March 1997.
  66. Carey, J. R., P. B. Moyle, M. Rejmanek, and G. Vermeij. 1996. Preface. Pages 1-2 in Carey, J. R., P. B. Moyle, M. Rejmanek, and G. Vermeij, eds., Invasion biology. Biological Conservation 78: 1-214.
  67. Castleberry, D. T., J. J. Cech, Jr., D. C. Erman, D. Hankin, M. Healey, G. M. Kondolf, M. Mangel, M. Mohr, P. B. Moyle, J. Nielsen, T. P. Speed, and J. G. Williams. 1996.  Uncertainty and instream flow standards. Fisheries (Bethesda): 21(8): 20-21.
  68. Moyle, P. B., and H. W. Li.  1994.  Nuisance essay: good report but should go much farther. Fisheries 19: 22-23.
  69. Moyle, P. B. 1993.  Saving California's salmon: The legacy of Ishi. Trout, Summer 1993: 14-17.
  70. Moyle, P. B.  1991.  Review of R. Pethiyagoda, Freshwater Fishes of Sri Lanka. The Wildlife Heritage Trust of Sri Lanka, Colombo.  Copeia 1991: 1166-1177. 
  71. Moyle, P. B.  1991.  Livebearing fish in evolutionary research. Review of G. K. Meffe and F. F. Snelson, eds., Ecology and Evolution of Livebearing Fishes (Poeciliidae). Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Evolution 45: 1060.
  72. Moyle, P. B. 1991.  Review of Robert J. Wooton,  Ecology of Teleost Fishes. Chapman and Hall, New York. Quarterly Review of Biology 66: 222.
  73. Moyle, P. B.  1991.  Ecology of introduced fishes and aquatic invertebrates in North America.  Pages 1-3 in J. D. Yount, ed., Ecology and Management of the Zebra Mussel and Other Introduced Aquatic Nuisance Species. USEPA/600/4-91/003.
  74. Moyle, P. B.  1991.  Ballast water introductions.  Fisheries 16: 4-6.
  75. Baltz, D. M., P. B. Moyle, and G. T. Miller.  1990.  Marine and freshwater fishery resources.  Chapter 12, pages 303-339 in G. T. Miller, ed., Resource Conservation and Management. Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, California.
  76. Moyle, P. B.  1989.   Review of P. C. Trotter, Cutthroat: Native Trout of the West, and R. E. Greswell, Status and Management of Interior Stocks of Cutthroat Trout.  Copeia 1989: 811-812.
  77. Moyle, P. B., and B. Herbold.  1988.  Fisheries at risk if more delta water diverted.  Op-Ed. Los Angeles Times.  July 6, 1988.
  78. Moyle, P. B.  1987.  Review of C. H. Hocutt and E. O. Wiley, The Zoogeography of North American Freshwater Fishes.  Aquaculture 62: 171-172.
  79. Moyle, P. B.  1985.  Exotic fishes and vacant niches.  Review of W. R. Courtenay, Jr. and J. R. Stauffer, Jr., eds., Distribution, Biology, and Management of Exotic Fishes.  The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. Environmental Biology of Fishes 13: 315-317.
  80. Moyle, P. B.  1984.  Review of W. N. Eschmeyer and E. S. Herald, A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California.  Quarterly Review of Biology 59: 85.
  81. Moyle, P. B. 1984. America's carp. Natural History 93(9): 42-51.
  82. Moyle, P. B.  1982.  Keys to the inland fishes of California.  California Department of Fish and Game Inland Fisheries Informational Leaflet 34. 
  83. Moyle, P. B.  1982.  Desert fishes.  Review of R. J. Naiman and D. L. Soltz, eds., Fishes in North American Deserts.  Environmental Biology of Fishes 7: 395-397.
  84. Moyle, P. B., and F. R. Senanayake.  1982.  Wildlife conservation in Sri Lanka: A Buddhist dilemma. Tigerpaper 9(4): 1-4.
  85. Moyle, P. B.  1981.  Review of E. K. Balon, ed., Charrs, salmonid fishes of the Genus Salvelinus. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 110: 313-316.
  86. Moyle, P. B., and F. R. Senanayake.  1981.  Conservation of ornamental freshwater fishes in Sri Lanka. Tigerpaper 8: 1-3.
  87. Moyle, P. B., and F. R. Senanayake.  1981.  Rainforest fishes of Sri Lanka.  Loris 15: 341-344.
  88. Moyle, P. B.  1980.  Review of D. L. Soltz and R. J. Naiman, The Natural History of Native Fishes in the Death Valley System.  Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Series 30.  Environmental Biology of Fishes 5(1): 96.
  89. Coules, D., and P. B. Moyle. 1979.  Wilderness and fisheries. A Supplement to Wilderness Record, July-August, 1979.
  90. Moyle, P. B. and D. Baltz.  1979.  Stillwaters west.  Rod and Reel Magazine, Part I, September/October, pages 20-26; Part II, November/December, pages 22-27.  Reprinted in Stillwater Trout.  1980.  J. Merwin, ed., Doubleday.
  91. Moyle, P. B.  1977.  More on Nile perch.  SFI Bulletin 281: 7.
  92. Moyle, P. B.  1977.  Are coarse fish a curse?  Fly Fisherman, Early Season 8: 35-39.