Fishing impacts and the degradation or loss of habitat structure

Fisheries Management and Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 401-420

  Turner, S J ^a,b   Thrush, S F ^a   Hewitt, J E ^a   Cummings, V J ^a   Funnell, G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fisheries management; Fishing; Habitat degradation; Habitat loss; Habitat restoration; Habitat structure; Protected marine and coastal areas

Indexed keywords

FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HABITAT STRUCTURE;

EID: 0032748871     PISSN: 0969997X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2400.1999.00167.x     Document Type: Review

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