Lessons from the past: Investigating historical data from bluefin tuna fisheries

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 197-216

  Fromentin, Jean Marc ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Fisheries collapse; Migration patterns; Population structure; Retrospective analysis; Thunnus thynnus

Indexed keywords

CATCH STATISTICS; FEEDING GROUND; HISTORICAL RECORD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MIGRATION ROUTE; OVERFISHING; PERCIFORM; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPAWNING GROUND; STOCK COLLAPSE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

SCOMBRIDAE; THUNNUS THYNNUS;

EID: 66149164755     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2008.00311.x     Document Type: Article

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