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The Hawke Box on the Labrador continental shelf has been closed to trawling and gillnetting but open for snow crab (Chionocetes opilio) pot fishing for three months of the year for the past decade. The closure was instigated by fishers and long-standing adjacent communities. To explore why, 19 local fishers were interviewed in March 2012, the majority of whom fished both snow crab (in the Box) and...
The adoption of endangered species laws in various nations has intensified efforts to better understand, and protect, at-risk species or populations, and their habitats. In many countries, delineating a portion of a species' habitat as particularly worthy of protection has become a mantra of these laws. Unfortunately, the laws themselves often provide scientists and managers with few, if any, guidelines...
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