Spatial management of marine resources can enhance the recovery of predators and avoid local depletion of forage fish

Conservation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 486-492

  Eero, Margit ^a   Vinther, Morten ^a   Haslob, Holger ^b   Huwer, Bastian ^a   Casini, Michele ^c   Storr Paulsen, Marie ^a   Köster, Friedrich W ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Cod recovery; Ecosystem based fisheries management; Food limitation; Forage fish; Local depletion; Predator prey overlap

Indexed keywords

CLUPEIDAE; GADUS CALLARIAS; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS;

EID: 84870928105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00266.x     Document Type: Article

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