Shrinking baseline: The growth in juvenile fisheries, with the Hong Kong grouper fishery as a case study

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 396-407

  To, Allen W L ^a   De Mitcheson, Yvonne Sadovy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Juvenile fisheries; Live fish market; Serranidae; Sexual maturity; Shrinking baseline; Threatened fish

Indexed keywords

BASELINE CONDITIONS; BODY SIZE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISHERY ECONOMICS; FOOD CONSUMPTION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE; MARICULTURE; PERCEPTION; PERCIFORM; RED LIST; SEAFOOD; SEXUAL MATURITY; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG;

EPINEPHELINAE; EPINEPHELUS AKAARA; EPINEPHELUS BRUNEUS; PISCES; SERRANIDAE;

EID: 70449726971     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2009.00326.x     Document Type: Article

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