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Nets versus nature

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The life-histories of pike adjust quickly to shifts in the opposing forces of fishing and natural selection. Such rapid changes suggest that evolutionary dynamics must be incorporated into fisheries management.

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Figure 1: The darwinian struggle between natural selection and fishing selection.

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