Increase Predators by Reducing Their Prey??? - Fish Geek - Fish, Research, and Management


Increase Predators by Reducing Their Prey???

Is it really possible that reducing prey numbers after their predator has been overfished might result in recovery of the predator population?  In some cases, yes.  Check out this interesting blog entry by Jeremy Cherfas where he points to Scandanavian research where biologists found the answer to recovering depleted brown trout stocks.

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