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: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@URI 2013
• Subjects: North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/gsofacpubs/593; https://doi.org/10.1890/12-0877.1; https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/context/gsofacpubs/article/1550/viewcontent/Collie_Bell_RebuildingFish_2013.pdf

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...