Overlooked impacts and challenges of the new European discard ban

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 175-180

  Sardà, Francesc ^a   Coll, Marta ^a   Heymans, Johanna J ^b   Stergiou, Konstantinos I ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Common Fisheries Policy; Discard ban; Ecosystem based Approach to Fisheries; European Seas; Landed discards; Precautionary Principle

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84923068833     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/faf.12060     Document Type: Article

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