Do some largemouth bass grow bigger because other bass got caught?
...In a 20-year experiment, researchers discovered that vulnerability to being hooked is a genetic trait among largemouth bass. What they found was not an inherited propensity for fast growth among some bass. Some bass get big, they said, because other bass are more likely to get caught.
“The potential for angling to have long-term evolutionary impacts on bass populations is real,” said David Philipp, an ecology and conservation researcher at the University of Illinois, in a project overview published in the journal Science Daily. “If we truly want to protect this valuable resource into the future, then we need to understand that and adjust our management strategies.”
In the study, fishing was strictly controlled on a 15-acre research...
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