39. What does this graph tell us about the important stages to manage?
Life-History, Fisheries, & Evolution – Conover & Munch paper
40. What recommendations do Conover & Munch make for increasing size of fish and total harvest?
41. Which ones do you think seem most likely to have an effect?
42. What is the inherent conflict illuminated by Conover & Munch’s paper?
43. What is heritability?
44. What are the two main assumptions that people make when using basic life-table analysis? Which of these assumptions are a problem for guppies? For silversides? For salmon?
45. Based on Conover & Munch’s paper, what do you think will happen to a fish
population where only the large individuals are harvested? What do you think will happen to a fish population where only the small individuals are
harvested?
46. Catching only the small individuals seems like a problem with modern trawls. Can you think of a way around this?
47. What assumptions did we make in our simple life-table analysis?
48. What does it mean when we say that life-history parameters are density
dependent? What does it mean when we say that life-history parameters
are density-independent?
49. What does it mean when we say that life-history parameters have evolved?
50. Why do Conover and Munch make the following statement: “Moreover, the
genetic changes caused by selective harvest may be irreversible; cessation
of harvest does not guarantee reverse selection back to the original state.”
51. Conover & Munch selected on the smallest guys at a given age. How does this
compare with the guppy experiments? Is this what they did? Or did they do
something else?
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