Shrinking fish: comparisons of prehistoric and contemporary salmonids indicate decreasing size at age across millennia.

Prehistoric fish were always bigger than contemporary Atlantic salmon and brown trout ( figure 1 a ), with highly significant differences for 1-, 2- and 3-year-old fish despite the limited archaeological sample size ( t -tests>3.5, p <0.002 in all cases).

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