Comments on FAO's state of fisheries and aquaculture, or 'SOFIA 2010'

Marine Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 746-752

  Pauly, Daniel ^a   Froese, Rainer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fisheries catch; Fishing down; Overfishing; Statistics underreporting

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955207509     PISSN: 0308597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2011.10.021     Document Type: Note

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