Summary:The big mama fish or known as BOFFFF, big, old, fat, fecund, female fish, can produce more eggs, than smaller fishes. They provide population of fishes for future future generations than other fishes and they sustain the fisheries around the world. Larger female fishes can hold fishes physically, they put more energy into making eggs that makes it bigger and to give it more development, growth. BOFFFF spawn their eggs in a different locations for a longer period of time, they spawn a lots of fishes since they extended their spawning season.
But BOFFFF are decreasing because they are the targets of many fishermen, and it might result to a greater consequence. The fishing of big female fish the shape of the population or changes the genetic structure of a population, it means that if the big female fish got taken away frequently then the smaller fish has less chance to spawn more fishes in the future since small fishes survives. It is very hard to bring back the original state once it is been disturbed, it might took many years to bring back the population that had been abundant. |
Reflection:Reading this article, I realized that many people says that let the small fishes go and capture the bigger fishes because smaller fish can grow up and produce more eggs for future generations but its not true. If the larger female fishes get caught then all the small fishes that got away will likely to produce lesser and lesser eggs because of structure genetic of a population. We should conserve our resources for future generations, there is a consequence to every actions that we do. I hope that most fishermen don't have to over fish even though that is their job but it might affect to their job in the future if they keep fishing for bigger fishes.
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