Implications of defining fisheries closed areas based on predicted habitats in Shetland: A proactive and precautionary approach

Marine Policy

Volumn 43, Issue , 2014, Pages 184-199

  Shelmerdine, Richard L ^a   Stone, Daniel ^a   Leslie, Beth ^a   Robinson, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inshore fisheries management; Maerl; Marine Spatial Planning; Modiolus modiolus; Multibeam acoustic habitat mapping; Species bed biogenic reef definition

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; GIS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MARINE POLICY; MULTIBEAM SONAR; PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE; RED ALGA; SPATIAL PLANNING;

SCOTLAND; SHETLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EQUIDAE; MODIOLUS MODIOLUS;

EID: 84883450509     PISSN: 0308597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2013.05.012     Document Type: Article

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