| dc.contributor.author |
Bailey, Kevin M. |
|
| dc.date.accessioned |
2011-09-28T16:55:18Z |
|
| dc.date.available |
2011-09-28T16:55:18Z |
|
| dc.date.issued |
2011 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7604 |
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| dc.description.abstract |
"Walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) is North America's most abundant and lucrative
natural fishery, and is the worlds largest fishery for human food. The little-known demise of the 'Donut
Hole' stock of pollock in the Aleutian Basin of the central Bering Sea during the 1980s is the most spectacular
fishery collapse in North American history, dwarfing the famous crashes of the northern cod and Pacific
sardine (Sardinops sagax). This collapse has received scant recognition and became evident only in 1993
when fishing was banned by an international moratorium; nearly 20 years later it has not recovered. The
history of fishing in the North Pacific Ocean after World War II offers some insights into how the Donut
Hole pollock fishery developed, and the societal and economic pressures behind it that so influenced the
stocks fate. Overfishing was, without a doubt, the greatest contributor to the collapse of the Aleutian Basin
pollock fishery, but a lack of knowledge about population biocomplexity added to the confusion of how
to best manage the harvest. Unfortunately, the big scientific questions regarding the relationship of Donut
Hole fish to other stocks are still unanswered." |
en_US |
| dc.language |
English |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
Bering Sea |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
fisheries |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
conservation |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
pollock |
en_US |
| dc.title |
An Empty Donut Hole: The Great Collapse of a North American Fishery |
en_US |
| dc.type |
Journal Article |
en_US |
| dc.type.published |
published |
en_US |
| dc.type.methodology |
Case Study |
en_US |
| dc.coverage.region |
North America |
en_US |
| dc.subject.sector |
Fisheries |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationjournal |
Ecology and Society |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationvolume |
16 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationnumber |
2 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationmonth |
June |
en_US |