Understanding spearfishing in a coral reef fishery: Fishers’ opportunities, constraints, and decision-making
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Understanding spearfishing in a coral reef fishery: Fishers’ opportunities, constraints, and decision-making
Social and ecological systems come together during the act of fishing. However, we often lack a deep understanding of the fishing process, despite its importance for understanding and managing fisheries. A quantitative, mechanistic understanding of the opportunities fishers encounter, the constraints they face, and how they make decisions within the context of opportunities and constraints will...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0181617