Human harvest of phenotypically desirable animals from wild populations imposes selection
that can reduce the frequencies of those desirable phenotypes. Hunting and fishing contrast …

Human harvest of animals in the wild occurs in terrestrial and aquatic habitats throughout
the world and is often intense. Harvest has the potential to cause three types of genetic …

By providing new approaches to the investigation of demographic and evolutionary
dynamics of wild populations, molecular genetics has led to fundamental changes in our …

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

The observable traits of wild populations are continually shaped and reshaped by the
environment and numerous agents of natural selection, including predators. In stark contrast …

The interest in fishing‐induced life‐history evolution has been growing in the last decade, in
part because of the increasing number of studies suggesting evolutionary changes in life …

Significant changes have occurred in the well‐established partnership between fisheries
managers and geneticists over the last 50 years. It is therefore timely to review and …

Widespread environmental changes including climate change, selective harvesting and
landscape alterations now greatly affect selection regimes for most organisms. How animals …

Managing fisheries using length‐based harvest regulations is common, but such policies
often create trade‐offs among conservation (eg maintaining natural age‐structure or …

Life expectancy is increasing in most countries and has exceeded 80 in several, as low-
mortality nations continue to make progress in averting deaths. The health and economic …