Best Management Strategies for Sustainable Giant Clam Fishery in French Polynesia Islands: Answers from a Spatial Modeling Approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Van Wynsberge, Simon ^a   Andréfouët, Serge ^a   Gilbert, Antoine ^b   Stein, Arsène ^c   Remoissenet, Georges ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^b GINGER SOPRONER   (New Caledonia)

^c Direction des Ressources Marines ^*  (French Polynesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FISHING; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); GROWTH RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES HABITAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCKING DENSITY; TRIDACNA MAXIMA; VIABLE POPULATION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; BIVALVIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FERTILITY; FISHERIES; GENETIC FITNESS; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYNESIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

BIVALVIA; TRIDACNA MAXIMA;

EID: 84878408253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064641     Document Type: Article

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