Partnerships Towards Sustainable use of Australia's Northern Prawn Fishery

Fisheries Management: Progress Towards Sustainability

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 205-230

  Dichmont, Catherine M ^a   Loneragan, Neil R ^b   Brewer, David T ^a   Poiner, Ian R ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Australian fisheries management authority (AFMA); Fisheries management; Northern prawn fishery (NPF); Offshore constitutional settlement (OCS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889455145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996072.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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