Visualizing the Food-Web Effects of Fishing for Tunas in the Pacific Ocean

Visualizing the Food-Web Effects of Fishing for Tunas in the Pacific Ocean

We use food-web models to develop visualizations to compare and evaluate the interactions of tuna fisheries with their supporting food webs in the eastern tropical Pacific (ETP) and the central north Pacific (CNP) Oceans. In the ETP and CNP models, individual fisheries use slightly different food we...

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Main Authors: Jefferson T. Hinke, Isaac C. Kaplan, Kerim Aydin, George M. Watters, Robert J. Olson, James F. K. Kitchell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2004-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
Subjects:
ecosystem modeling
food webs
longline fishing
purse-seine fishing
tunas
trophic levels
Pacific Ocean
Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss1/art10/

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