Theory, consequences and evidence of eroding population spatial structure in harvested marine fishes: a review

All terrestrial and marine populations are, to varying degrees, spatially structured over a broad and hierarchical range of spatio-temporal scales (Goodwin & Fahrig 1998) that span from small schools to demes in a metapopulation complex. Regardless of its scale, the spatial structure of a population is a key component of the population's ecology However, in fisheries science, rarely have results from spatial ecology been connected back to population abundance (Cadrin & Secor 2009) nor