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BOFFFF
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English
Noun
en big old fat fecund female fish.
en https://octogroup.org/news/big-old-fat-fecund-female-fish-boffff-hypothesis-and-what-it-means-mpas-and-fisheries/ Big Old Fat Fecund Female Fish: The BOFFFF Hypothesis and What It Means for MPAs and Fisheries Management Octogroup Sep 15, 2007 John Davis The BOFFFF hypothesis arose largely from the recent work of biologists Alan Longhurst on population structure of Atlantic cod and Steven Berkeley on maternal effects in Pacific rockfishes. https://web.archive.org/web/20260413073003/https://octogroup.org/news/big-old-fat-fecund-female-fish-boffff-hypothesis-and-what-it-means-mpas-and-fisheries/ 13 April 2026
en Marine biology