A Métier-Sustainability-Index (MSI25) to evaluate fisheries components: Assessment of cases from data-poor fisheries from southern Europe

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 78-98

  Tzanatos, Evangelos ^a   Castro, Jose ^b   Forcada, Aitor ^c   Matić Skoko, Sanja ^d   Gaspar, Miguel ^e   Koutsikopoulos, Constantin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Croatia)

^e INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

fisheries; index; management; metier; small scale fisheries; traffic lights

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY MODELING; FISHERY STATISTICS; FISHING GEAR; HETEROGENEITY; INDEX METHOD; SUSTAINABILITY;

SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 84871241395     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fss161     Document Type: Article

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