Spatial and temporal trends and variation in life-history traits, including age and length at maturation, can be influenced by environmental and anthropogenic processes, including size-selective exploitation. Spawning ...

Evolutionary principles are now routinely incorporated into medicine and agriculture. Examples include the design of treatments that slow the evolution of resistance by weeds, pests, and pathogens, and the design of breeding ...

Today, fishing is the dominant source of mortality in most commercially exploited fish stocks. Life-history theory predicts that, under most circumstances, increased mortality at potential ages and sizes at maturation ...

Over the last eight decades, northeast Arctic cod has shown a marked change towards earlier maturation at smaller sizes. At the same time, harvesting shifted from primarily targeting mature cod in the spawning grounds to ...

We analyse how intensive exploitation may have caused evolutionary changes in the age and length at maturation in North Sea plaice Pleuronectes platessa. Such evolutionary change in the onset of maturation is expected, ...

Farmed escapees may threaten the genetic integrity of native salmon populations through interbreeding. However, introgression requires survival until maturation, successful reproduction and successful early development. ...

Genetic interactions between farmed escapees and wild fish represent a challenge to environmentally sustainable aquaculture. Breeding programs for Atlantic cod Gadus morhua have been initiated; however, the genetic response ...

Size‐selective predation shapes species and induces changes in life‐history traits. Exposure to sizeselective mortality will make being the size that is vulnerable dangerous and possibly fatal; thus, if small individuals ...