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Fisheries science

large, old female fish that produce disproportionately more and often better offspring, so their removal weakens population resilience.

In fisheries science, big old fat fecund female fish refers to large, old female fish that produce disproportionately more and often better offspring, so their removal weakens population resilience. This meaning comes from Hixon (2013) in ICES Journal of Marine Science.[1]

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Hixon, M. A., Johnson, D. W., & Sogard, S. M. (2013). BOFFFFs: on the importance of conserving old-growth age structure in fishery populations. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 71(8), 2171-2185. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fst200

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