Seascape genetics in support of sustainable fisheries management of flatfish KU Leuven
In 1883, Thomas Huxley put forward that all the great sea fisheries areinexhaustible. This illustrates the classical notion that marine environments tend to be demographically open without any chance of complete extinction. Such belief was based on the wide distribution of many marine species with extensive larval and adult dispersal, and large population sizes, even after heavy exploitation. However, the classical view of inexhaustible ...