In his quest to provide support to his Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory, the Sea Around Us PI, Dr. Daniel Pauly, has written a short foreword to the 1974 chapter “The Tactics and Strategy of Growth in Fishes” published by Derek Iles in the book Sea Fisheries Research.
In Dr. Pauly’s view, the ideas presented by Iles represented a major conceptual advance in understanding the growth of fishes. “Notably, it demonstrated conclusively that the reproduction of fish does not influence their growth, but rather it showed that ‘far from growth depending on maturity; on the contrary, maturity depends on growth’,” he wrote.
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Iles, D. 1974 The Tactics and Stategy of Fish Growth