Risks of Introductions of Marine Fishes: Reply to Briggs

• Published in: Fisheries
• Main Authors: Courtenay, Walter R., Jr., Collette, Bruce B., Essington, Timothy E., Hilborn, Ray, Orr, James W., Pauly, Daniel, Randall, John E., Smith-Vaniz, William F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Briggs; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10088/8079; https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8446-34.4.181

This is a rebuttal to a publication by John C. Briggs in the April 2008 issue of Fisheries in Which be suggested introducing fishes and invertebrates from the North Pacific into the North Atlantic to increase diversity toward improving fisheries ill the latter. We argue otherwise for reasons that Br...