Risks of shifting baselines highlighted by anecdotal accounts of New Zealand's snapper (Pagrus auratus) fishery

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 965-983

  Parsons, Daren M ^a   Morrison, Mark A ^a   MacDiarmid, Alison B ^a   Stirling, Bruce ^b   Cleaver, Phillip ^b   Smith, Ian W G ^c   Butcher, Maria ^c  

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

^b History Works   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Anecdotes; Historical information; Industrial fishery exploitation; Shifting baseline; Social research interviews

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BASELINE CONDITIONS; BIOMASS; CATCH STATISTICS; EXPLOITATION; FISHERY SCIENCE; HISTORICAL RECORD; PERCIFORM; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

CHRYSOPHRYS AURATUS; SPARIDAE;

EID: 70350145612     PISSN: 00288330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288330909510054     Document Type: Article

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