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
[log in to unmask] ---------- > 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 > > 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 > > ***************************************** > Carlo Pipitone > -------- > CNR-ITPP > Laboratorio di Biologia Marina > via G. da Verrazzano 17 > 91014 Castellammare del Golfo (TP), Italy > tel: (0924)35013 > fax: (0924)35084 > e-mail: [log in to unmask] > alternate e-mail: [log in to unmask] > ***************************************** > > *************************************************************** > <To leave send SIGNOFF FISH-SCI to [log in to unmask]> > <For information send INFO FISH-SCI to [log in to unmask]> > ***************************************************************
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