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Seasonal asynchrony and harvest diversification contribute to demersal finfish fisheries stability in Chesapeake Bay (Page 1)

Seasonal asynchrony and harvest diversification contribute to demersal finfish fisheries stability in Chesapeake Bay

Hardison, SB, Lefcheck JS, White SB, Liang M, Zhang YS, Patrick CJ, and Scheld AM ·
2025

Biodiversity can confer temporal stability to ecosystem processes through asynchrony in species' abundances and may promote asynchrony and stability of commercial fishing harvests derived from exploited species. However, the linkages between asynchrony in the population dynamics of commercially harvested species and asynchrony of associated harvests have been difficult to resolve due to ecological, social, and economic dynamics that mediate resource extraction.

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