Ecosystem approach to management: Definitions, principles and experiences from implementation in the North Sea

The Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 209-227

  Skjoldal, Hein Rune ^a   Misund, Ole Arve ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

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