Are multispecies models an improvement on single-species models for measuring fishing impacts on marine ecosystems?
Anne B. Hollowed, Nicholas Bax, Richard Beamish, Jeremy Collie, Michael Fogarty, Patricia Livingston, John Pope and Jake C. Rice Alaska Fisheries Science Center 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115-6349, USA CSIRO Marine Research GPO Box 1538, Castray Esplanade, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia DFO, Pacific Biological Station Nanaimo, British Columbia V9R 5K6, Canada University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography Narragansett, RI 02882, USA Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science PO Box 38, Solomons, MD 20688, USA NRC (Europe) Ltd, The Old Rectory Burgh St Peter, Norfolk NR34 0BT, England, UK CSAS-DFO 200 Kent Street, Station 1256, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0E6 We review the application of multispecies models as tools for evaluating impacts of fishing on marine communities. Four types of model are identified: descriptive multispecies, dynamic multispecies, aggregate system, and dynamic system models. The strengths and wea
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