A study by Scandinavian scientists found that culling prey fish populations can be an effective strategy for helping restore threatened predator fish stocks.
Sources
- Restoring predator numbers by culling their prey (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1141412 (science.org)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17588929/ (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/it-sounds-fishy-but-cull-prey-predator-will-thrive/ (scientificamerican.com)
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