Fishing elevates variability in the abundance of exploited species

By C. Hsieh, C. Reiss, J. Hunter, J. Beddington, R. May, George Sugihara. Nature, 2006

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sociology and Political Science

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Impending collapse of bluefin tuna in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean (2009, background): “These reproductive demographic changes in turn can lead to higher recruitment variability in heavily exploited fish populations compared with populations experiencing lower exploitation (Hsieh et al. 2006; Anderson et al. 2008).”
An overview of APECOSM, a spatialized mass balanced “Apex Predators ECOSystem Model” to study physiologically structured tuna population dynamics in their ecosystem (2010, background): “Present marine ecosystems are experiencing simultaneously the effects of high and increasing levels of fishing pressure (Sinclair and Valdimarsson, 2003) and in-depth structural modifications induced by climate change (Hsieh et al., 2005; Hsieh and Reiss, 2006).”
Spatial analysis shows that fishing enhances the climatic sensitivity of marine fishes (2008, methodology): “We examine six life history traits: maximum length, length-at-maturation, age-at-maturation, fecundity, spawning duration, and trophic level (Hsieh et al. 2006).”
Maternal effects in rockfishes Sebastes spp.: A comparison among species (2008, background): “…studies suggest that the removal of older and larger fish by fishing causes greater fluctuations in recruitment of commercially harvested species compared to pre-harvest conditions (Marteinsdottir & Thorarinsson 1998, Secor 2000, Wieland et al. 2000, Berkeley et al. 2004a, Hsieh et al. 2006).”
On balanced exploitation of marine ecosystems: results from dynamic size spectra (2012, background): “The effects of truncation on resilience are harder to document, but (Hsieh et al. (2006) reported greater temporal variability in exploited than in unexploited fish species in the California Current System which they attributed to truncation of the age distribution.”
Industrial fishing, no-take zones and endangered penguins (2012, positive): “Seabirds generally have life-history traits that allow them to buffer environmental variability, but anthropogenic influences such as fishing increase the amplitude of such natural variability (Hsieh et al., 2006).”