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What is Over-fishing?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2009

Abstract

For the sake of argument I will suppose:

I. That in a biologically self-contained area, e.g. in the North Sea, statistics show that the value of the total yearly catch of a certain species of fish is decreasing year by year;

II. That the catching power and the prices are not reduced;

III. That the physical conditions have not changed in an unfavourable manner.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1903

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References

* This analysis of the problems of over-fishing was prepared to meet a desire expressed by several members of the International Committee on Over-fishing during the last meeting of the International Council at Copenhagen.–W. G.