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Giant Amazon fish becoming extinct in many fishing communities, saved in others

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Physorg

Publication Date
2014-08-13

The team compared mainstream bioeconomic theory—which policymakers have depended on in order to protect fish populations—with the lesser-known "fishing-down" theory, which predicts that large, high-value, easy-to-catch fish can be fished to extinction.

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http://phys.org/news/2014-08-giant-amazon-fish-extinct-fishing.html