Collapse of bluefin tuna in the western Atlantic

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 243-246

  Safina, Carl ^a,b   Klinger, Dane H ^a  

^a Blue Ocean Institute   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; PERCIFORM; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD INDUSTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; STATISTICS; TUNA;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FISHERIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TUNA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST);

SCOMBRIDAE; THUNNUS THYNNUS;

EID: 41849099944     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00901.x     Document Type: Review

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