Legal size limit implies strong fisheries selection on sexually selected traits in a temperate wrasse providing male-only parental care
Corkwing wrasse (Symphodus melops) is a temperate wrasse displaying both sex and male dimorphism and is targeted in a size selective commercial fishery which has increased dramatically since 2008. Wrasses are supplied alive to salmon farms as cleaner fish to combat infestations of Salmon lice. In pr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Marine Science |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.FMARS.2015.03.00255/full |