Global marine yield halved as fishing intensity redoubles

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 493-503

  Watson, Reg A ^a   Cheung, William W L ^a,b   Anticamara, Jonathan A ^c   Sumaila, Rashid U ^a   Zeller, Dirk ^a   Pauly, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c University of the Philippines Diliman   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Fishing effort; Fishing intensity; Spatial expansion; Yield

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FISHERY STATISTICS; FISHING EFFORT; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MARINE RESOURCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCK ASSESSMENT; YIELD;

EID: 84886380115     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2012.00483.x     Document Type: Article

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