Increased mortality from fishing is expected to favor faster life histories, realized through
earlier maturation, increased reproductive investment, and reduced postmaturation growth …

A number of theoretical models, experimental studies and time‐series studies of wild fish
have explored the presence and magnitude of fisheries‐induced evolution (FIE). While most …

There is increasing evidence that intense fishing pressure is not only depleting fish stocks
but also causing evolutionary changes to fish populations. In particular, body size and …

Exploitation of fish populations can induce evolutionary responses in life histories. For
example, fisheries targeting large individuals are expected to select for early maturation at …

By removing individuals with certain heritable characteristics such as large body size,
harvesting may induce rapid evolutionary change in fish life history. There is controversy …

The interest in fishing‐induced life‐history evolution has been growing in the last decade, in
part because of the increasing number of studies suggesting evolutionary changes in life …

The probabilistic maturation reaction norm approach has been widely heralded as an
empirical approach to distinguish between the effects of genetic selection and phenotypic …

Commercial fisheries exert high mortalities on the stocks they exploit, and the consequent
selection pressure leads to fisheries-induced evolution of growth rate, age and size at …

Worldwide depletion of fish stocks has led fisheries managers to become increasingly
concerned about rebuilding and recovery planning. To succeed, factors affecting recovery …

This essay comments on recent research on Darwinian fisheries science and on the future
development of this field. From a practical point of view, the key question is: how fast are …