Ecosystem-based insights on northwest Atlantic fisheries in an age of globalization

Globalization: Effects on Fisheries Resources

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 331-363

  Bavington, Dean ^a   Ka, James ^b  

^a Department of Environment and Resource Studies University of Waterloo ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511542183.018     Document Type: Chapter

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