1. Comments on Edgar et al. (2018) paper for south‐western Australia.
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Gaughan, Dan, Caputi, Nick, Molony, Brett, Wise, Brent, Begg, Gavin, Mayfield, Stephen, Steer, Michael, Ward, Tim, Linnane, Adrian, Stobart, Ben, Sloan, Sean, and Saunders, Thor
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FISHERY management ,MARINE biodiversity conservation ,FISHERIES ,BYCATCHES ,AQUATIC resources ,FISH declines ,MARINE parks & reserves - Abstract
Edgar, Ward, and Stuart-Smith ([2]) argue that Australian fishery stocks are suffering rapid declines and that to meet sustainability targets an expanded network of "no-fishing" reserves is required. We contend that an assessment based on 11 commercially exploited species, mainly confined to shallow waters within Queensland, is not a sound basis for extrapolating to an Australia-wide assessment of the status of fisheries that cover offshore waters with a wide array of species and habitats. An assessment of the status of Australian fisheries resources is a major exercise and requires evaluating all available information as undertaken in the peer-reviewed SAFS rather than the approach adopted by Edgar et al. ([2]). [Extracted from the article]
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- 2019
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