期刊名称：Western Australia. Fisheries Department. Fisheries Research Reports
印刷版ISSN：1035-4549
出版年度：2009
卷号：187
页码：186-186
出版社：Government of Western Australia / Department of Fisheries
摘要：The importance of spawning aggregations in fisheries management has become widely
recognised, particularly in tropical regions where the imbalance between low stock productivity
and high fishing effort has created major sustainability issues. This is exemplified by the fate of
the once common Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus), which now is officially endangered
in the Caribbean and tropical western Atlantic as a consequence of aggregation fishing
(Sadovy and Domeier 2005). Similarly, even highly productive temperate water species that
aggregate to spawn are far from immune to overfishing with, for example, stocks of the once
¡®indestructable¡¯ Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), now severely depleted through overfishing. As
such, management of this species now also includes options to protect spawning aggregations
(e.g. in the Irish Sea; www.opsi.gov.uk).
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