If you were to reduce fishing mortality, the natural mortality rate or the total mortality rate would hopefully go down. The natural mortality rate would be unlikely to go down unless the predators also go down.
Biomathematician, Science Branch, Newfoundland and Labrador Region, Department of Fisheries and Oceans
If you were to reduce fishing mortality, the natural mortality rate or the total mortality rate would hopefully go down. The natural mortality rate would be unlikely to go down unless the predators also go down.
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