Screen LibraryMismanagement of marine fisheries
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiii, 320 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780521896726 (hardback) 052189672X (hardback) 9780521721509 (pbk.) 0521721504 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | F316 |
| CLC: | F316.4 |
| Call Number: | F316.4/L854 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. "Longhurst examines the proposition, central to fisheries science, that a fishery creates its own natural resource by the compensatory growth it induces in the fish, and that this is sustainable. His novel analysis of the reproductive ecology of bony fish of cooler seas offers some support for this, but a review of fisheries past and present confirms that sustainability is rarely achieved. The relatively open structure and strong variability of marine ecosystems is discussed in relation to the reliability of resources used by the industrial-level fishing that became globalised during the 20t |