While the impacts of high exploitation on fish populations and aquatic ecosystems are well-
documented for commercial fishing, particularly in the marine environment, the potential …

Over the past decades, Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, Salmonidae) has emerged as a model
system for sexual maturation research, owing to the high diversity of life history strategies …

The value of big old fat fecund female fish (BOFFFFs) in fostering stock productivity and
stability has long been underappreciated by conventional fisheries science and …

By providing new approaches to the investigation of demographic and evolutionary
dynamics of wild populations, molecular genetics has led to fundamental changes in our …

Abstract The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health data were used to test
predictions from life history theory. We hypothesized that (1) in young adulthood an …

Fish have proven to be model organisms for the study of animal personalities, and a rich
literature documents consistent interindividual behavioral differences in a variety of species …

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 …

The possibility for fishery-induced evolution of life history traits is an important but
unresolved issue for exploited fish populations. Because fisheries tend to select and remove …

Age and size at maturation have declined dramatically in many commercial fish stocks over
the past few decades–changes that have been widely attributed to fishing pressure. We …

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 …