Study concludes forage fish are well suited to variable fishing rates that target the species in times of abundance.

February 16, 2017

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New methods further discern extreme fluctuations in forage fish populations
Anchovy, sardine and hake scale deposition rate from AD 1000-1500 derived from a recent, age-calibrated sediment core from Santa Barbara Basin, Cal. Representative fish scales and the respective species are shown on the right.Credit: I.L. Hendy, University of Michigan; S. McClatchie, NOAA Fisheries; NMFS Image Library.

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