Defining Trade-Offs among Conservation, Profitability, and Food Security in the California Current Bottom-Trawl Fishery

Conservation Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 257-268

  Hilborn, Ray ^a   Stewart, Ian J ^b   Branch, Trevor A ^a   Jensen, Olaf P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioeconomic; Fisheries management; Overfishing; Sebastes

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BOTTOM TRAWLING; CATCH COMPOSITION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; FISHERY PRODUCTION; FISHERY REGULATION; FISHING INDUSTRY; FOOD SECURITY; HARVESTING; OVERFISHING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; TELEOST; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; FOOD INDUSTRY; INCOME; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FISHERIES; FISHES; FOOD SUPPLY; INCOME;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

SEBASTES;

EID: 84858808382     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01800.x     Document Type: Article

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