Ecology: Managing Evolving Fish Stocks
Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: Evolutionary impact assessment is a framework for quantifying the effects of harvest-induced evolution on the utility generated by fish stocks. CREDIT: N. KEVITIYAGALA/SCIENCE Darwinian evolution is the driving process of innovation and adaptation across the world’s biota. Acting on top of natural selection, human-induced selection pressures can also cause rapid evolution. Sometimes such evolution has undesirable consequences, one example being the spreading resistance to antibiotics and pesticides, which causes suffering and billion-dollar losses annually (1). A comparable anthropogenic selection pressure originates from fishing, which has become the main source of mortality in many fish stocks, and may exceed 1
Source: Science
Institutions: University of Bergen, Norwegian Institute of Marine Research, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Ifremer, Swedish National Board of Fisheries, University of Iceland, Hólar University College, Instituto de Investigacao das Pescas e do Mar, Wageningen Marine Research
Language: English
Subfield: Aquatic Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Life below water
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2136168956