Commercializing bycatch can push a fishery beyond economic extinction

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Commercializing bycatch can push a fishery beyond economic extinction [1]

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Tropical bottom trawling is among the most destructive fishing
practices, catching large quantities of bycatch, which are usually
discarded. We used questionnaire surveys of trawl fishers to look at
changes in catches over the last 30 years (1978

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08/04/2010

Author(s): Andrew Balmford [2], Aaron Savio Lobo [3], Rohan Arthur & et al [4]

Source: Conservation Letters [5]

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Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/commercializing-bycatch-can-push-fishery-beyond-economic-extinction

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