Extinction risk and overfishing: Reconciling conservation and fisheries perspectives on the status of marine fishes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Davies, Trevor D ^a   Baum, Julia K ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; FISHERY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK; SEA; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FISHERIES; FISHES; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK;

EID: 84864855503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00561     Document Type: Article

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