Is tuna critically endangered? Extinction risk of a large and overexploited population

Ecological Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 345-356

  Matsuda, Hiroyuki ^a   Yahara, Tetsukazu ^b   Uozumi, Yuji ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FAR SEAS FISHERIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extinction probability; Population decrease; Red List Categories; Time series analysis; Tuna

Indexed keywords

COMMERICAL FISHING; ENDANGERED FISH; EXTINCTION RISK; OVEREXPLOITATION; POPULATION SIZE; SOUTHERN BLUEFIN TUNA; TUNA;

THUNNUS MACCOYII;

EID: 0031425399     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02529464     Document Type: Article

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