Priceless prices and marine food webs: Long-term patterns of change and fishing impacts in the South Brazil Bight as reflected by the seafood market

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 87, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 320-330

  Pincinato, R B M ^a   Gasalla, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS; FISHING IMPACT; FOOD WEBS; HISTORICAL CHANGES; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE FOOD WEB; MARKET CHANGES; MARKET DATA; MARKET PRICE; MARKET TRENDS; MARKET VALUES; MARKET VARIABLES; MEGACITIES; MULTI-SPECIES; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; RELATIVE PRICES; TARGET SPECIES; TROPHIC LEVEL;

COMMERCE; COSTS; FISHERIES; LANDING; MEATS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

DATA INTERPRETATION; ECONOMETRICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FISHING INDUSTRY; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD WEB; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARKET SYSTEM; PRICE DYNAMICS; SEAFOOD; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SOUTH BRAZIL BIGHT;

EID: 78649790456     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2010.08.006     Document Type: Article

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