Having been raised on a livestock farm, it makes sense to me. Raising cattle, you pick out and keep your best heifers and bulls to breed. In fishing / hunting, people tend to harvest the fastest growing or biggest fish or deer. Hopefully, those fish or deer had already passed on their genetics, but... This study might address catchability too. Those aggressive hitting fish tend to be the ones on some one's dinner plate.

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