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I wonder whether lobsters will respond by evolving to be smaller adults.
by tonyedgecombe 3y ago
I wonder whether lobsters will respond by evolving to be smaller adults.
- throwaway5752 3y agohttps://phys.org/news/2022-11-overfished-lobster-bigger-areas.html https://phys.org/news/2022-11-overfished-lobster-bigger-area...
- ijhuygft776 3y agoThey grow bigger because they get to live longer?
- ojbyrne 3y agoI don’t think these policies last long enough to show up on an evolutionary timescale.
- mista2nith 3y ago[dead]
- hansvm 3y agoI know the practice of de-clawing crabs led to small claws as a dominant characteristic till it was abandoned, and similarly the illegality of harvesting molting variants of hard-shelled crabs resulted in local populations of permanently quasi-soft-shell crabs. Admittedly that took decades rather than the few years we might see for a lobster size ban, but minor evolutionary tweaks when those phenotypes already exist in the wild don't take long to establish themselves under heavy fishing pressure.