Benefits of rebuilding global marine fisheries outweigh costs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Sumaila, Ussif Rashid ^a   Cheung, William ^a   Dyck, Andrew ^a   Gueye, Kamal ^b   Huang, Ling ^c   Lam, Vicky ^a   Pauly, Daniel ^a   Srinivasan, Thara ^d   Swartz, Wilf ^a   Watson, Reginald ^a   Zeller, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b United Nations Environment Programme   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FISHERIES; INTERNATIONALITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEAWATER;

EID: 84863737735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040542     Document Type: Article

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