Ecological Issues & Applications Sustainable Harvest of Natural Populations Requires Being a “Smart Predator”
Although the advent of agriculture some 10000 years ago reduced human dependence on natural populations of plants and animals as a food source, more than 80 percent of the world’s commercial catches of fish and shellfish is from the harvest of naturally occurring populations in the oceans (71 percent) and inland freshwaters (10 percent). When […]
