Why Hunting For Bigger Fish Isn T Sustainable?

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Hunters are hunting the wrong sizes and ages. Seth Borenstein, AP science writer,writer of “Study: Hunting for Bigger Fish isn't Sustainable”, AP science writer states, “taking bigger fish for wildlife has a remarkable short-term benefits of evolution for survival to the fittest to survival of the smallest” (Borenstein 1). Sparing the little fish is better for the species. If hunters take the bigger fish the little ones will have time to develop and reproduce. But if hunters take the little species first the species will eventually die out. Seth Borenstein,AP science writer, writer of “Study: Hunting for bigger fish isn't sustainable”, states, “Darimont himself hunts deer and fishes for salmon, but in both cases he prefers young prey because

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