Apocalypse in world fisheries? the reports of their death are greatly exaggerated

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1375-1378

  Daan, Niels ^a   Gislason, Henrik ^b   Pope, John G ^b   Rice, Jake C ^c  

^a Charlottenlund Slot ^*  (Netherlands)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

catch based analysis; collapsed stocks; conceptual flaws; simulation; stock forecasts; technical flaws

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CATCH STATISTICS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FORECASTING METHOD; HARVESTING; MARICULTURE; MORTALITY; STOCK ASSESSMENT; STOCK COLLAPSE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TIME SERIES;

EID: 79959521430     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsr069     Document Type: Article

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