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Why mothers matter

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  • Stephen R. Palumbi

    (Stanford University)

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Fish population growth depends on older mothers, which in some species produce more and ‘better’ offspring than younger fish. When fisheries remove the most productive females, the whole population suffers.

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  • Stephen R. Palumbi, 2004. "Why mothers matter," Nature, Nature, vol. 430(7000), pages 621-622, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:430:y:2004:i:7000:d:10.1038_430621a
    DOI: 10.1038/430621a
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    1. Jie Ning & Matthew J. Sobel, 2019. "Easy Affine Markov Decision Processes," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 67(6), pages 1719-1737, November.
    2. R. Quentin Grafton & Tom Kompas & Pham Van Ha, 2006. "The Economic Payoffs from Marine Reserves: Resource Rents in a Stochastic Environment," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 82(259), pages 469-480, December.
    3. Tahvonen, Olli, 2009. "Economics of harvesting age-structured fish populations," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 58(3), pages 281-299, November.
    4. Shiffman, D.S. & Gallagher, A.J. & Wester, J. & Macdonald, C.C. & Thaler, A.D. & Cooke, S.J. & Hammerschlag, N., 2014. "Trophy fishing for species threatened with extinction: A way forward building on a history of conservation," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 50(PA), pages 318-322.
    5. Simone Vincenzi & Marc Mangel & Alain J Crivelli & Stephan Munch & Hans J Skaug, 2014. "Determining Individual Variation in Growth and Its Implication for Life-History and Population Processes Using the Empirical Bayes Method," PLOS Computational Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(9), pages 1-16, September.
    6. Smith, Martin D. & Zhang, Junjie & Coleman, Felicia C., 2008. "Econometric modeling of fisheries with complex life histories: Avoiding biological management failures," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 55(3), pages 265-280, May.
    7. R. Quentin Grafton & Ragnar Arnason & Trond Bjorndal & David Campbell & Harry F. Campbell & Colin W. Clark & Robin Connor & Diane P. Dupont & Rognvaldur Hannesson & Ray Hilborn & James E. Kirkley & To, 2005. "Incentive-based approaches to sustainable fisheries (now replaced by EEN0508)," Economics and Environment Network Working Papers 0501, Australian National University, Economics and Environment Network.

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