Increased mortality from fishing is expected to favor faster life histories, realized through
earlier maturation, increased reproductive investment, and reduced postmaturation growth …

Commercial and recreational harvests create selection pressures for fitness-related
phenotypic traits that are partly under genetic control. Consequently, harvesting can drive …

Body size determines total reproductive-energy output. Most theories assume reproductive
output is a fixed proportion of size, with respect to mass, but formal macroecological tests are …

The value of big old fat fecund female fish (BOFFFFs) in fostering stock productivity and
stability has long been underappreciated by conventional fisheries science and …

Understanding the drivers of evolution is a fundamental aim in biology. However, identifying
the evolutionary impacts of human activities is challenging because of a lack of temporal …

Human exploitation of wild‐living animals has been suggested to create a 'landscape of
fear'. A consequence could be that individuals surviving intensive harvesting, either as a …

Size‐selective harvesting is assumed to alter life histories of exploited fish populations,
thereby negatively affecting population productivity, recovery, and yield. However …

A close relationship between adult abundance and stock productivity may not exist for many
marine fish stocks, resulting in concern that the management goal of maximum sustainable …

Harvest of fish and wildlife, both commercial and recreational, is a selective force that can
induce evolutionary changes to life history and behavior. Naturally selective forces may …

Change in behaviour is usually the first response to human‐induced environmental change
and key for determining whether a species adapts to environmental change or becomes …