Mounting evidence for historical overfishing and long-term degradation of caribbean marine ecosystems: Comment on julio baisre's "setting a baseline for caribbean fisheries"

Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 165-169

  McClenachan, Loren ^a   Hardt, Marah ^b   Jackson, Jeremy ^c,d   Cooke, Richard ^d  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Writer and Consultant   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BASELINE SURVEY; DEGRADATION; FISHERY ECONOMICS; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; HISTORICAL RECORD; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OVERFISHING;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 77951568240     PISSN: 15564894     EISSN: 15561828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564891003656178     Document Type: Article

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