The Californian sardine stocks collapsed after the mid 1940's. According to
Rothschild (1986) there was a fishing moratorium and the fishery did not
recover until early 1980s. Because this is a well studied fishery, there
should be a number of  publications on the effect of fishing moratorium. My
question is: Did the Californian sardine fishery recover to the earlier
status after fishing moratorium enforcement? If so, actually when?
Siddeek

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> From: Carlo Pipitone <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Info request on recovery of mar species
> Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 1:32 PM
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> At 11.55 20/04/98 -0400, Robert Glazer wrote:
> >I'm looking for references and information on the recovery of marine
> fisheries
> >after implementation of harvest moratoria.  Specifically, I need to
> >know  marine species that have recovered to become commercially or
> >recreationally viable after the closure.  Please e-mail me directly and
I
> will post
> >the collated responses in a future e-mail.
> >
> >Robert Glazer
>
>
> Mr. Glazer,
> a year-round trawling ban has been in place since August 1990 in the Gulf
> of Castellammare (NW Sicily).
> After four years the biomass of the total demersal fish assemblage had
> increased 8 times (data from experimental trawl surveys).
> If you are interested, I can send you a paper in Italian on the subject,
> reporting the increase rates on a dozen target species.
> Another paper is in progress.
> Please let me know.
>
> Regards,
> Carlo Pipitone
>
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