Rebuilding fish communities: the ghost of fisheries past and the virtue of patience

• Published in: Ecological Applications
• Main Authors: Collie, Jeremy, Rochet, Marie-Joëlle, Bell, Richard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2013
• Subjects: Ecology; Patience; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/12-0877.1; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1890%2F12-0877.1; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1890/12-0877.1

The ecosystem approach to management requires the status of individual species to be considered in a community context. We conducted a comparative ecosystem analysis of the Georges Bank and North Sea fish communities to determine the extent to which biological diversity is restored when fishing pres...