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A Definition of Depletion of Fish Stocks
Author(s) -
Van Oosten John
Publication year - 1949
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1946)76[283:adodof]2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - overfishing , fish stock , stock (firearms) , fish <actinopterygii> , fishery , natural resource economics , economics , ecology , biology , geography , archaeology
Attention was focused on the need of a common and better understanding of the term depletion as applied to the fisheries in order to eliminate if possible the existing inexactness of thought on the subject. Depletion has been confused at various times with at least ten different ideas associated with it but which, as has been pointed out, are not synonymous at all. In defining depletion we must recognize that the term represents a condition and must not be confounded with the cause (overfishing) that leads to this condition or with the symptoms that identify it. Depletion was defined as a reduction, through overfishing, in the level of abundance of the exploitable segment of a stock that prevents the realization of the maximum productive capacity.