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SUBMITTER: Swain DP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2124474 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Swain Douglas P DP Sinclair Alan F AF Mark Hanson J J
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20070401 1613
Many collapsed fish populations have failed to recover after a decade or more with little fishing. This may reflect evolutionary change in response to the highly selective mortality imposed by fisheries. Recent experimental work has demonstrated a rapid genetic change in growth rate in response to size-selective harvesting of laboratory fish populations. Here, we use a 30-year time-series of back-calculated lengths-at-age to test for a genetic response to size-selective mortality in the wild in ...[more]