Identifying marine pelagic ecosystem management objectives and indicators

Marine Policy

Volumn 55, Issue , 2015, Pages 23-32

  Trenkel, Verena M ^a   Hintzen, Niels T ^b   Farnsworth, Keith D ^c   Olesen, Christian ^d   Reid, David ^e   Rindorf, Anna ^f   Shephard, Samuel ^c   Dickey Collas, Mark ^g  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d Danish Pelagic Producers Organisation ^*  (Denmark)

^e MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^g ICES ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

CFP; Ecosystem based management; Management objective; Marine pelagic community; MSFD

Indexed keywords

DEMERSAL FISHERY; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY POLICY; LEGISLATION; MARINE POLICY; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 84922227155     PISSN: 0308597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2015.01.002     Document Type: Article

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