BACKGROUND Differences among species in their ability to adapt to environmental change
threaten biodiversity, human health, food security, and natural resource availability …

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

Marine recreational fishing (MRF) is a popular activity that involves millions of people
worldwide. While the impacts of recreational fishing on freshwater ecosystems received …

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

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 …

Considerable time and money are expended in the pursuit of catching fish with hooks (eg,
handlining, angling, longlining, trolling, drumlining) across the recreational, commercial and …

Small-scale fisheries (SSFs) engage the vast majority of the world's fishers but are struggling
to keep pace with coastal populations, and stocks are declining to levels that threaten …

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

As a discipline, marine historical ecology (MHE) has contributed significantly to our
understanding of the past state of the marine environment when levels of human impact …

Fishing is widely known to magnify fluctuations in targeted populations. These fluctuations
are correlated with population shifts towards young, small, and more quickly maturing …