Best management strategies for sustainable giant clam fishery in French Polynesia islands: answers from a spatial modeling approach.

The giant clam Tridacna maxima has been largely overexploited in many tropical regions over the past decades, and was therefore listed in appendix II of the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in 1985. In French Polynesia, several atolls and islands harbor the world'...

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Main Authors: Simon Van Wynsberge, Serge Andréfouët, Antoine Gilbert, Arsène Stein, Georges Remoissenet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23724072/pdf/?tool=EBI