Spearfishing as a potential threat to fishery sustainability in Jamaica: a survey of 23 fishing beaches

Spearfishing was becoming an increasingly important economic activity in the Caribbean as a result of socioeconomic factors related to underemployment and the low capital outlay for equipment. For a year (2011) we surveyed spearfishing in 23 Jamaican beaches. Spearfishing has expanded from approxima...

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Main Authors: Zahra Ennis, Karl Aiken
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Costa Rica 2014-09-01
Series:Revista de Biología Tropical
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442014000700024&lng=en&tlng=en