Ichthyology and GIS critical to streamlining data collection in field endeavors and generating more accurate data sets. Ichthyology requires an understanding species geographic requirements. Fish require different abiotic environments or sediments for successful completion of biological life cycle based on species. Serious examinations of species should always include habitat because habitat differences create changes in population. Sediment could thereby be mapped and changes in sediment could easily be verified using previous records while simultaneously showing changes in resident fish populations. Various factors relating to the fish life cycle, such as food sources, migration patterns, changes in spawning grounds, could all be more accurately
Journal of Applied Ichthyology Journal of Applied Ichthyology The Journal of Applied Ichthyology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal on ichthyology, marine biology, and oceanography published by Wiley-Blackwell. It is the official journal of the World Sturgeon Conservation Society and of the Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Kommission für Meeresforschung ("German Scientific Commission for the Exploration of the Sea"). The editors-in-chief are Harald Rosenthal and Dietrich Schnack. The "Journal of Applied Ichthyology" was established as a separate journal in 1985, but merged with the "Archive of Fishery and Marine Research" in 2005. The latter journal had been established as "Berichte der Deutschen Wissenschaftlichen Kommission für Meeresforschung", published from