Recreation and the "right to fish" movement: Anglers and ecological degradation in the Florida keys

Environmental History

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 76-87

  McClenachan, Loren ^a  

^a Health Services and Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLING; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FISHERY PRODUCTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OVERFISHING; POPULATION DECLINE; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; REEF; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

FLORIDA KEYS; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875835753     PISSN: 10845453     EISSN: 19308892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/envhis/ems110     Document Type: Review

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