Fogarty, Michael J. and Murawski, Steven A. (1998) Large-scale disturbance and the structure of marine systems: Fishery impacts on Georges bank. Ecological Applications, Vol.8 (1). pp. 6-22. ISSN 1051-0761
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Georges Bank, a shallow submarine plateau located off the New Englandcoast, has supported valuable commercial fisheries for several centuries. The region ischaracterized by high levels of primary productivity and, historically, high levels of fishproduction. Within the last four decades Georges Bank has been subjected to major per-turbations that have profoundly altered levels of catch, abundance, and species composition.The arrival of distant water fleets during the early 1960s resulted in dramatic increases ineffective fishing effort and the subsequent commercial collapse of several fish populations.Total fish biomass is estimated to have declined by�50% on Georges Bank during theperiod of operation of the distant water fleets. The implementation of extended jurisdiction(the 200-mile [370.4-km] limit) in 1977 was followed by modernization and increasedcapacity of the domestic fleet, resulting in a second perturbation to the system that resultedin further declines in groundfish populations to historically low levels.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Marine Fisheries, Fisheries Management, Groundfish, Ecosystem Based Management, Fisheries Statistics, USA, Habitat, Overfishing, Fish Landing Centres, Spawning, Fish Mortality, Fishing Efforts |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Varsha V icsf |
| Date Deposited: | 10 May 2022 11:08 |
| Last Modified: | 10 May 2022 11:08 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/14267 |
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