Understanding why fish grow the way they do and getting serious about it

Understanding why fish grow the way they do and getting serious about it

Understanding why fish grow the way they do and getting serious about it

Fish gills. Image by 2427999, Pixabay.

The distribution and concentration of dissolved oxygen and water temperature in the oceans and freshwaters are usually far more influential in shaping the growth and reproduction of fish than the distribution of their prey.

In a new paper in Science Advances, Daniel Pauly, principal investigator of the Sea Around Us initiative at UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, argues that scientists need to avoid attaching human attributes to fish and start looking at their unique biology and constraints through a different lens.

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