Estimating the worldwide extent of illegal fishing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Agnew, David J ^a   Pearce, John ^b   Pramod, Ganapathiraju ^c   Peatman, Tom ^b   Watson, Reg ^c   Beddington, John R ^a,d   Pitcher, Tony J ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Marine Resources Assessment Group   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d Government Office for Science   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FISHING; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; ILLEGAL FISHING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PACIFIC ISLANDS; REGIONALIZATION; TREND STUDY;

EID: 84883374424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004570     Document Type: Article

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