A global analysis of apparent trends in abundance and recruitment of large tunas and billfishes inferred from Japanese longline catch and effort data

There has been substantial debate in recent years about the extent to which industrialized fishing has affected tunas and other large pelagic predator populations and altered the pelagic community. Variations in the type of data incorporated into assessments, statistical treatment of catch rate info...

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Main Author: Ahrens, Robert Norman Matthew
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/21742