Fishing amplifies forage fish population collapses

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 6648-6652

  Essington, Timothy E ^a   Moriarty, Pamela E ^a   Froehlich, Halley E ^a   Hodgson, Emma E ^a   Koehn, Laura E ^a   Oken, Kiva L ^a   Siple, Margaret C ^a   Stawitz, Christine C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem based management; Fisheries; Marine conservation; Population collapse

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; FISH; FISHERY; FISHING; FORAGE FISH; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84930226596     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1422020112     Document Type: Article

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