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. 2017 Aug 1;114(31):E6274.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1706893114. Epub 2017 Jul 18.

Overfishing causes frequent fish population collapses but rare extinctions

Olivier Le Pape  1 , Sylvain Bonhommeau  2 , Anne-Elise Nieblas  3 , Jean-Marc Fromentin  4
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Overfishing causes frequent fish population collapses but rare extinctions

Olivier Le Pape et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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