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  • Senior Marine Scientist, Dauphin Island Sea Lab; Research Scientist, Life Sciences Department, Texas A&M – Corpus Christi; Associate Professor of Marine Science, University of South Alabama, University of South Alabama
Hurricane Harvey set up a rare natural experiment to study the effects of fishing. NOAA via Wikipedia

When hurricanes temporarily halt fishing, marine food webs recover quickly

Lee Smee, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Joseph W. Reustle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Hurricane Harvey destroyed the fishing infrastructure of Aransas Bay and reduced fishing by 80% over the following year. This removed humans from the trophic cascade and whole food webs changed.

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