A cold oceanographic regime with high exploitation rates in the Northeast Pacific forecasts a collapse of the sardine stock

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4175-4180

  Zwolinski, Juan P ^a   Demer, David A ^b  

^a Ocean Associates   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Management; Pacific decadal oscillation; Pelagic community; Upwelling system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; FISH STOCK; FISHERY; NONHUMAN; OCEANOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARDINE; SARDINOPS SAGAX; SCOMBER JAPONICUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRACHURUS SYMMETRICUS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIOMASS; COLD TEMPERATURE; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; FISHES; FORECASTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERCIFORMES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

SARDINOPS SAGAX; SCOMBER JAPONICUS; TRACHURUS SYMMETRICUS;

EID: 84858182994     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113806109     Document Type: Article

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