Shrinking fish sizes in exploited stocks
Friday, June 26, 2015 - 08:00
in Biology & Nature
An experimental study with size-selectively harvested zebrafish that began in 2006 at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin, Germany reveals that size-selective harvesting causes changes in key life-history traits, leading to low maximum body size and poor reproductive output.