title: Toward Darwinian fisheries management.
abstract: There is increasing evidence that fishing may cause rapid contemporary evolution in freshwater and marine fish populations. This has led to growing concern about the possible consequences such evolutionary change might have for aquatic ecosystems and the utility of those ecosystems to society. This special issue contains contributions from a symposium on fisheries-induced evolution held at the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting in August 2008. Contributions include primary studies and reviews of field-based and experimental evidence, and several theoretical modeling studies advancing life-history theory and investigating potential management options. In this introduction we review the state of research in the field, discuss current controversies, and identify contributions made by the papers in this issue to the knowledge of fisheries-induced evolution. We end by suggesting directions for future research.
authors.affiliation: Aquatic Research and Development Section, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Peterborough, ON, Canada ; Department of Biology, University of Bergen Bergen, Norway ; Institute of Marine Research Nordnes, Bergen, Norway.
authors.forename: Erin S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Dunlop
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Bergen Bergen, Norway.
authors.forename: Katja
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Enberg
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Bergen Bergen, Norway.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jørgensen
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Bergen Bergen, Norway ; Institute of Marine Research Nordnes, Bergen, Norway ; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Laxenburg, Austria.
authors.forename: Mikko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Heino