Fishing down the food web
Fishing down the food web is the process whereby fisheries in a given ecosystem, "having depleted the large predatory fish on top of the food web, turn to increasingly smaller species, finally ending up with previously spurned small fish and invertebrates".
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Fishing down the food web
Fishing down the food web is the process whereby fisheries in a given ecosystem, "having depleted the large predatory fish on top of the food web, turn to increasingly smaller species, finally ending up with previously spurned small fish and invertebrates".
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Fishing down the food web is t ...... us result in lower MTI values.
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"It consists of a gradual loss ...... itive groups ." – Daniel Pauly
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Fishing down is a succession which reverses the usual evolutionary sequence.
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Fishing down the food web is t ...... small fish and invertebrates".
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