Why fishing magnifies fluctuations in fish abundance
Submitted by susan on Thu, 2008-04-17 16:08
It is now clear that fished populations can fluctuate more than unharvested stocks. However, it is not clear why. Here the authors distinguish among three major competing mechanisms for this phenomenon, by using the 50-year California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) larval fish record.
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