An Empty Donut Hole: The Great Collapse of a North American Fishery

Ecology and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Bailey, Kevin M ^a  

^a NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Aleutian Basin; Bering Sea; Commercial fisheries; Conservation; North Pacific; Theragra chalcogramma; Walleye pollock

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SPECIES; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; GADOID FISHERY; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ALEUTIAN BASIN; BERING SEA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

POLLACHIUS; SARDINOPS SAGAX; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 79959996483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-04124-160228     Document Type: Article

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