Nature Communications (May 2017)

Extended fisheries recovery timelines in a changing environment

  • Gregory L. Britten,
  • Michael Dowd,
  • Lisa Kanary,
  • Boris Worm

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15325
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Many estimates of fisheries recovery time currently assume that the environment and associated fish population dynamics are fixed. Brittenet al. use Bayesian models incorporating variation in productivity and carrying capacity to provide revised estimates of recovery timelines for depleted fish stocks worldwide.