Structure and Transformation of Fish Production Systems
- 1 October 1977
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
- Vol. 34 (10) , 1989-1994
- https://doi.org/10.1139/f77-266
Abstract
A tentative synthesis is provided of some considerations that emerged from the PERCIS proceedings. The percid composition of commercial fisheries tends to be relatively conservative except where abrupt community transformations, characterizable as fold catastrophes, mark the effects of critical conjunctions of fishing intensity and lake productivity acting jointly as control variables. These behaviors of fish production systems are consistent in general with current observations and theory based upon size-dependent processes in marine pelagic fisheries. Key words: theory, percidae, community ecology, fishing intensity, production systemsKeywords
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