Hundred-year decline of North Atlantic predatory fishes

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-24

  Christensen, Villy ^a   Guénette, Sylvie ^a   Heymans, Johanna J ^a   Walters, Carl J ^a   Watson, Reginald ^a   Zeller, Dirk ^a   Pauly, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomass decline; Ecosystem modelling; North Atlantic; Predatory fish

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FISH; FISHING MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

PISCES;

EID: 0038345302     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-2979.2003.00103.x     Document Type: Article

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