A Case Study in Successful Management of a Data-Poor Fishery Using Simple Decision Rules: The Queensland Spanner Crab Fishery

Marine and Coastal Fisheries

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Dichmont, Catherine M ^a   Brown, Ian W ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Southern Fisheries Centre   (Australia)

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EID: 77958159609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19425120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/C08-034.1     Document Type: Article

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