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Throwing back the big ones saves a fishery from hot water
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2018
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Source: PNAS 115 (8) 1678-1680; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1722620115
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Journal Title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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Description:In Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon teach Alice a dance in which everyone partners with a lobster and then throws it “as far out to sea as you can” (1). While the “porpoise” (as the Mock Turtle pronounces “purpose”) of throwing lobsters never becomes entirely clear in the story, Le Bris et al. (2) show in PNAS that the century-old practice of returning large and female lobsters back to the waters of Maine has primed the fishery to thrive in the face of climate change (Fig. 1). Their contribution provides key insight that can guide more widespread climate adaptation in fisheries.
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Source:PNAS 115 (8) 1678-1680; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1722620115
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Pubmed ID:29440438
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC5828640
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