Publication Date:
2012-05-09
Description:
Zwolinski and Demer (1) described indicators suggesting imminent collapse of Pacific sardines (Sardinops sagax) in the California Current. Those indicators are lacking in explanatory or predictive power, and the paper does not recognize fundamental differences between conservative sardine fishery management today and Sardinops fisheries that were virtually unregulated previously in the California Current and in other regions of the world.Zwolinski and Demer’s assertion of a concordance in fishery collapses in Japan and South America and collapse in the California Current continues to be a subject of debate (2). Furthermore, their own figure 2A in ref. 1 showed that California now...
Keywords:
Letters
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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