Compensatory mitigation as a solution to fisheries bycatch-biodiversity conservation conflicts

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 325-331

  Wilcox, Chris ^a   Donlan, C Josh ^b,c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c Advanced Conservation Strategies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BYCATCH; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY REGULATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MITIGATION; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATOR; SEABIRD; SOCIAL CONFLICT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SUSTAINABILITY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 34547625938     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2007)5[325:CMAAST]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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