The importance in fishery management of leaving the big ones.

By C. Birkeland, P. Dayton. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2005

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Subfields: Aquatic Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Probabilistic maturation reaction norms: their history, strengths, and limitations (2007, unknown): “…of many organisms, including those of fishes, are not only affected by environmental conditions but also possess a heritable component (e.g. Conover & Munch 2002, Birkeland & Dayton 2005; also many breeding programs in aquaculture are squarely based on the heritability of growth-related variation).”
Shifting dynamic forces in fish stock fluctuations triggered by age truncation? (2011, background): “…Ltd, Global Change Biology, 17, 3046–3057 while no clear link between age truncation and recruitment strength could be identified for the NEA cod (Ottersen, 2008), parental effects have now been documented for numerous stocks of different species (Birkeland & Dayton, 2005; Hsieh et al., 2010).”
Fast versus slow growing tuna species: age, growth, and implications for population dynamics and fisheries management (2017, background): “In any case, RFMOs should consider, or at a minimum investigate, the risks of not conserving older fish, because the body of evidence on the importance of protecting the population age structure in exploited fish increases (Longhurst 2002; Birkeland and Dayton 2005; Fromentin 2006; Brunel 2010).”
The application of genetics to marine management and conservation: Examples from the Indo-Pacific (2014, background): “Likewise, larger females produce exponentially more, and often bigger, eggs that develop up to three times faster and survive starvation for more than twice as long as larvae produced by smaller females (Berkeley et al. 2004, Birkeland and Dayton 2005).”
Marine reserves: size and age do matter. (2008, unknown): “Moreover, it is important to protect large fish, as these have greater reproductive potential and produce larvae with better survival rates than those from younger fishes (Birkeland & Dayton 2005).”
Animal temperature limits and ecological relevance: effects of size, activity and rates of change (2009, background): “…with behavioural responses to fishing gear that potentially change recruitment patterns (Uusi-Heikkilä et al. 2008) and the demonstration that, in some species, larvae of older individuals have better survival potential than those of younger ones (Bobko & Berkeley 2004; Birkeland & Dayton 2005).”
Rethinking length-based fisheries regulations: the value of protecting old and large fish with harvest slots (2015, background): “Based on these results and other considerations, some have questioned the usefulness of MLLs (Tesch and Wehrmann 1982; Conover and Munch 2002; Birkeland and Dayton 2005), and increasingly alternative regulations to MLLs are sought, in particular when maintaining large fish in the stock is…”
Documented and Potential Biological Impacts of Recreational Fishing: Insights for Management and Conservation (2006, background): “An increase of the proportion of older repeat spawners and the protection of the natural variability of the size and age structure can help to reduce the probability of recruitment failure when the spawning stock is at low levels (Noble and Jones, 1999; Birkeland and Dayton, 2005).”
Demography of a large grouper, Epinephelus fuscoguttatus, from Australia's Great Barrier Reef: implications for fishery management (2006, background): “Truncation of size and age structures by fisheries can, therefore, unduly reduce reproductive capacity (Berkeley et al. 2004b, Birkeland & Dayton 2005).”
Spawning period of Mediterranean marine fishes (2010, background): “This is because the selective removal of large females by fishing (Sadovy 2001), which are more fecund and produce better quality of eggs (Birkeland and Dayton 2005), decreases the repro- ductive potential of the stock (Conover and Munch 2002) and thus may affect future fishery yields.”
Paradigm shifts in marine fisheries genetics: ugly hypotheses slain by beautiful facts (2008, background): “In fact, it seems likely that successful spawners tend to be older and larger fish (Berkeley et al. 2004), thus supporting the view that maintenance of age-structure of exploited species is an important management consideration (Birkeland and Dayton 2005).”