Small-scale fisheries: Importance, vulnerability and deficient knowledge

Governance of Marine Fisheries and Biodiversity Conservation: Interaction and Co-evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 317-331

  Kolding, J ^a,b   Bene C ^c   Bavinck, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b IUCN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Industrial fisheries; Resource conservation; Small scale fisheries (SSF)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908223592     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118392607.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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