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Destabilized fish stocks

Nature volume 452, pages 825–826 (2008)Cite this article

Fishing of natural populations increases the variability of fish abundance. A unique data set from the southern California Current has allowed an evaluation of three hypotheses for why that should be so.

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Figure 1: The ecological and evolutionary effects of fishing on fish-stock dynamics2.

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  1. Department of Biology, Nils Chr. Stenseth and Tristan Rouyer are at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo, PO Box 1066 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway. n.c.stenseth@bio.uio.no,

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Stenseth, N., Rouyer, T. Destabilized fish stocks. Nature 452, 825–826 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/452825a

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