Commercializing bycatch can push a fishery beyond economic extinction

Conservation Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 277-285

  Lobo, Aaron Savio ^a,b   Balmford, Andrew ^a   Arthur, Rohan ^b   Manica, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

Author keywords

Bycatch; India; Overfishing; Poultry; Trash fish

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957631267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00117.x     Document Type: Article

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