Fishing Pressure Results in Faster Atlantic Menhaden Growth
A scientist at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science on Solomons Island helped find new research that suggests that large-scale environmental factors influence the size of one of the ocean's most abundant forage species, the menhaden.
"This study allowed us to get a better handle on the way the menhaden population responds to fishing versus environmental conditions, which should feed into managers' thinking about how much effect their regulations can have on these stocks and how these stocks might...
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