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University of Maine: Fish are Shrinking, According to New Study Co-Authored by McGill
September 15, 2023
ORONO, Maine, Sept. 15 (TNSres) -- The University of Maine issued the following news release:

University of Maine ecology professor Brian McGill helped discover that the average body sizes of fish are shrinking as part of an international project with 16 other researchers.

The team, led by University of York macroecologist Ines Martins, analyzed the body size trends of numerous plants and animals worldwide from 1960-2020 using data from the BioTIME database. While size . . .

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