Harvesting forage fish can prevent fishing-induced population collapses of large piscivorous fish

Significance In many marine ecosystems, fisheries target predatory fish, known as piscivores, well their prey forage fish. It is generally thought that harvesting of fish negatively affects piscivore population abundance and resilience. Here, we show that, contrary to this widely held belief, piscivorous stocks exposed high fishing mortality benefit from On the other hand, low are reduced by The beneficial effect occurs when releases density dependence in forage-fish population. Our findings have implications for policy advice regarding management protection stocks.