Current Problems in the Management of Marine Fisheries
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Current problems in the management of marine fisheries.
The public perception of fisheries is that they are in crisis and have been for some time. Numerous scientific and popular articles have pointed to the failures of fisheries management that have caused this crisis. These are widely accepted to be overcapacity in fishing fleets, a failure to take the ecosystem effects of fishing into account, and a failure to enforce unpalatable but necessary re...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.1137362