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Recreational fishing selectively captures individuals with the highest fitness potential.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Dec 2012
Sutter David A H, Suski Cory D, Philipp David P, Klefoth Thomas, Wahl David H, Kersten Petra, Cooke Steven J, Arlinghaus Robert
Abstract excerpt
Fisheries-induced evolution and its impact on the productivity of exploited fish stocks remains a highly contested research topic in applied fish evolution and fisheries science. Although many quantitative models assume that larger, more fecund fish are preferentially removed by fishing, there is...
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