A New Perspective On Overfishing
What is the state of modern fisheries, and how sustainable are current fishing practices? These are questions that can provoke heated debates among the fisheries biologists that study them, as well as among fishermen, policy-makers, the society at large. In a letter in this month's issue of Trends in Ecology and Evolution, marine conservationist Eric Palkovacs writes that answers to these questions will not be forthcoming until we can agree on a definition of "overfishing," and, further, that this will not be achievable until we start thinking about fisheries dynamics from an "eco-evolutionary" perspective--one that recognizes the integral relationship between ecological and evolutionary processes occurring "in contemporary time." read more