Risky Fishing

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Risky prey behavior evolves in risky habitats.

Longstanding theory in behavioral ecology predicts that prey should evolve decreased foraging rates under high predation threat. However, an alternative perspective suggests that growth into a size refuge from gape-limited predation and the future benefits of large size can outweigh the initial survival costs of intense foraging. Here, I evaluate the relative contributions of selection from a g...

Over fishing: Hong Kong's fishing crisis finally arrives.

Wherever I go in the world today, newspapers invariably contain a story about over fishing. In Australia, it is Patagonian toothfish, abalone and the resources of the Great Barrier Reef. In Asia, shark finning. In the Caribbean, Garoupa s. In the Pacific, Tuna, and in the Atlantic, Cod. To name but a few. We have come to regard over fishing as a fact of life, but in a few places it has become a...

Risky business.

In prior studies by high-level commissions, emphasis was given to improving the scientific basis and institutional procedures for risk assessment and risk regulation within existing statutory frameworks. Recommendations have led to slow but steady progress. This study is considerably different. It emphasizes a public health approach for efficient use of resources in a new flexible framework for...

Risky business.

With the establishment of the National Center for Advanced Translational Sciences (NCATS) in December of 2011, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US government made a commitment to directly invest in translational research. With NCATS, the NIH will invest tax payer dollars in the riskiest ‘precompetitive’ stages of drug discovery. NCATS has also articulated a commitment to bring to...