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Comment
. 2017 Feb 21;114(8):1759-1761.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1700187114. Epub 2017 Feb 8.

Getting to the bottom of global fishery catches

Éva Elizabeth Plagányi  1
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Getting to the bottom of global fishery catches

Éva Elizabeth Plagányi. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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The author declares no conflict of interest.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Food web pathways to fisheries catches. (A) Phytoplankton species, including Tripos sp. (B) Mesozooplankton copepod example Acrocalanus sp., which channels primary production to higher trophic levels. (C) Nyctiphanes australis, a euphausiid and important prey species. (D) Fisheries catch landed in different marine ecosystems depends on fishing effort and the structure of the underlying food web as well as the efficiency with which energy is transferred between trophic levels in each system. Images courtesy of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Canberra, Australia).
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  • Reconciling fisheries catch and ocean productivity.
    Stock CA, John JG, Rykaczewski RR, Asch RG, Cheung WW, Dunne JP, Friedland KD, Lam VW, Sarmiento JL, Watson RA. Stock CA, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Feb 21;114(8):E1441-E1449. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1610238114. Epub 2017 Jan 23. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017. PMID: 28115722 Free PMC article.

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