Winners and losers in a world where the high seas is closed to fishing

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages 8481-

  Sumaila, U Rashid ^a   Lam, Vicky W Y ^a   Miller, Dana D ^a   Teh, Louise ^a   Watson, Reg A ^b   Zeller, Dirk ^a   Cheung, William W L ^a   Côté, Isabelle M ^c   Rogers, Alex D ^d   Roberts, Callum ^e   Sala, Enric ^f   Pauly, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; FISH; FISHERY; SEA;

ANIMALS; FISHERIES; FISHES; OCEANS AND SEAS;

EID: 84923088263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08481     Document Type: Article

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