Harvest control rules (HCRs) have been implemented for many fisheries worldwide. However, in most instances, those HCRs are not based on the explicit feedbacks between stock properties and economic considerations. This ...

Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua, L.) stocks off Newfoundland and Labrador underwent severe depletions that started in the late 1980s and led to moratoria in the early 1990s. Fisheries closures are still applied in most of the ...

Fish stocks experiencing high fishing mortality show a tendency to mature earlier and at a smaller size, which may have a genetic component and therefore long-lasting economic and biological effects. To date, the economic ...

Many species are subject to seasonal cycles in resource availability, affecting the timing of their reproduction. Using a stage-structured consumer-resource model in which juvenile development and maturation are resource ...

Fishing is very likely to create selective pressures inducing adaptive changes in the life histories of harvested stocks. Using field data and adequate statistical methods, such alterations can be demonstrated. However, ...

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 explore the evolutionary effects of fisheries on North-East Arctic (NEA) cod. It has earlier been shown that fisheries can change the cod’s age and size at maturation in two ways: first, by reducing the biomass, which ...

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, ...

Worldwide depletion of fish stocks has led fisheries managers to become increasingly concerned about rebuilding and recovery planning. To succeed, factors affecting recovery dynamics need to be understood, including the ...