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HOW TO MANAGE FISHERIES
Author(s) -
Roughgarden Jonathan
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
ecological applications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.864
H-Index - 213
eISSN - 1939-5582
pISSN - 1051-0761
DOI - 10.1890/1051-0761(1998)8[s160:htmf]2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - stock (firearms) , fishery , fisheries management , fish stock , fisheries science , marine fisheries , ecology , stock assessment , abundance (ecology) , environmental resource management , fish <actinopterygii> , geography , fishing , economics , biology , archaeology
A review of developments in marine ecology and economic theory suggests that fishery management should: make determining process‐based production functions the central goal of fishery science, establish three‐fourths of the average unharvested abundance as the target stock, and tax revenues from any fish caught when the stock is below target.