The following is a summary of a report on recent research conducted by Prof . Chih-hao Hsieh of the Institute of Oceanography and Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
In addition to fishery exploitation , it is clear that both environmental forcing and fishing mortality can affect fluctuations of exploited fish populations. Therefore, investigating fishing effects in the context of a changing climate is important for sound fisheries management. The objective is to gain mechanistic understandings of how fishing affects the exploited populations, and then through these understandings, to devise sound management policies and regulations for world fisheries.