Why fishing magnifies fluctuations in fish abundance

By C. Anderson, C. Hsieh, Stuart Sandin, R. Hewitt, A. Hollowed, J. Beddington, R. May, George Sugihara. Nature, 2008

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Resolving the effect of climate change on fish populations (2009, background): “In addition, fishing may result in a reduction in genetic variability, which would negatively affect the possibilities of an evolutionary response to climate change and the ability of depleted stocks to recover (Anderson et al., 2008).”
Empirical dynamic modeling for beginners (2017, methodology): “Moreover, if a system is nonlinear (i.e. driven mainly by low-dimensional, deterministic processes), then in principle it should be possible to construct a reasonable mechanistic model that captures this behavior with much better forecast skill (Sugihara 1994; Hsieh et al. 2008).”
Impending collapse of bluefin tuna in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean (2009, background): “…F4–20+ = TAC-dependent (50,000; 60,000 t) 2011–2022: F1–3 = 0.15 ∗ SQ (2004–2006); F4–20+ = 0.5 ∗ SQ (2004–2006) In addition to changes in abundance and range occupied, the size and age structure of exploited fish populations often changes systematically over time (Anderson et al. 2008).”
Fishery-induced demographic changes in the timing of spawning: consequences for reproductive success* (2009, background): “This provides one possible explanation of why age-truncated populations have been found to be subject to unstable population dynamics (Anderson et al. 2008).”
The conservation and fishery benefits of protecting large pike Esox lucius L. by harvest regulations in recreational fishing (2010, methodology): “However, it is only recently that fishing mortality exerted by recreational fishing has been identified as contributing to fish stock declines (Post et al., 2002; Lewin et al., 2006).”
Impact of climate on eel populations of the Northern Hemisphere (2008, background): “The destabilization of fish populations due to overfishing leads to higher variability of abundances, associated with higher sensitivity to the environment (Anderson et al. 2008, Stenseth & Rouyer 2008).”
Emerging Issues and Methodological Advances in Fisheries Reproductive Biology (2011, background): “…strategies, and particular emphasis has been given to the importance of larger and older females for reproductive output and reproductive success, as age truncation is expected to decrease a stock’s resilience (Caddy and Agnew 2004) and increase its recruitment variability (Anderson et al. 2008).”
Reproductive resilience: a paradigm shift in understanding spawner-recruit systems in exploited marine fish (2017, neutral): “…events in multiple batch spawners (Fitzhugh et al. 2012; Cooper et al. 2013), differing spatiotemporal reproductive behaviour (Scott et al. 2006; Anderson et al. 2008; Wright and Trippel 2009) and differing energy reserves (Jørgensen et al. 2006; Rideout and Tomkiewicz 2011), which impact egg…”
Reproductive Timing in Marine Fishes: Variability, Temporal Scales, and Methods (2011, background): “Similarly, age truncation has recently been recognized as a factor affecting a population’s reproductive success (Anderson et al. 2008), and demographic trends in reproductive timing have been reported at annual (Wright and Trippel 2009), intraseasonal (Claramunt et al. 2007), and diel scales (Asoh…”
Rethinking length-based fisheries regulations: the value of protecting old and large fish with harvest slots (2015, background): “First, a large fraction of young spawners amplifies a stock’s non-linear dynamics, hence destabilizing its abundance (Reed 1983; Anderson et al. 2008; Hsieh et al. 2010).”