The Mediterranean and Black Sea fisheries at risk from overexploitation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Tsikliras, Athanassios C ^a   Dinouli, Anny ^a   Tsiros, Vasileios Zikos ^a   Tsalkou, Eleni ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLACK SEA; CATCH BASED METHOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL OVEREXPLOITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVALUATION STUDY; FISH STOCK; FISHERY; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING IN BALANCE INDEX; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCK ASSESSMENT; TOTAL LANDING; TROPHIC LEVEL; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; GEOGRAPHY; RISK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BLACK SEA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; RISK;

EID: 84961310375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121188     Document Type: Article

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