From Mexico to Brazil: Central Atlantic fisheries catch trends and ecosystem models

Zeller D., Booth, S., Mohammed E. and Pauly D. (editors) 2003. From Mexico to Brazil: Central Atlantic fisheries catch trends and ecosystem models. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 11(6), 264 pp.

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Table of Contents    
Director's Foreword
Daniel Pauly
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Part 1. Fisheries Trends    
The global fisheries crisis as a rationale for improving the FAO's database of
fisheries statistics
Daniel Pauly and Dirk Zeller
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Reconstructing fisheries catches and fishing effort for the southeastern
Caribbean (1940-2001): General methodology
Elizabeth Mohammed
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St. Lucia, eastern Caribbean: Reconstructed fisheries catches and
fishing effort, 1942-2001
Elizabeth Mohammed and Williana Joseph
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Barbados: Reconstructed fisheries catches and fishing effort, 1940-2000
Elizabeth Mohammed, Christopher Parker and Stephen Willoughby
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Grenada and the Grenadines: Reconstructed fisheries catches and fishing
effort, 1942-2001
Elizabeth Mohammed and Justin Rennie
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St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Reconstructed fisheries catches and
fishing effort, 1942-2001
Elisabeth Mohammed, Leslie E. Straker and Cheryl Jardine
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Trinidad and Tobago: Preliminary reconstruction of fisheries catches
and fishing effort, 1908-2002
Elizabeth Mohammed and Christine Chan A Shing
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Cuban fisheries catches within FAO area 31 (Western Central Atlantic): 1950-1999
Julio Baisre, Shawn Booth and Dirk Zeller
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The fisheries of Belize
Vincent Gillett
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Fisheries landings and trade of the Turks and Caicos Islands
Murray A. Rudd
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Brief history of Bermudan fisheries, and catch comparison between
national sources and FAO records
Brian Luckhurst, Shawn Booth and Dirk Zeller
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Venezuelan marine fisheries catches in space and time: 1950-1999
Jeremy Mendoza, Shawn Booth and Dirk Zeller
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A database of landings data on Brazilian marine fisheries, 1980-2000
Kátia de M. F. Freire
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Part 2. Ecosystem Models    
A generic marine ecosystem model for the southeastern Caribbean in the
late 1990s: Application to Grenada and the Grenadines
Elizabeth Mohammed
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Trophic model of a fringing coral reef in the southern Mexican Caribbean
José Humberto Alvarez-Hernández
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Trophic dynamics of a mangrove ecosystem in Celestun Lagoon,
Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
M.E. Vega-Candejas
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Trophodynamic ecology of two critical habitats (seagrasses and mangroves)
in Términos Lagoon, southern Gulf of Mexico
Evelia Rivera-Arriaga, Ana L. Lara-Domínguez, Guillermo Villalobos-Zapata
and Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia

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A preliminary trophic model of Bahía de la Ascensión, Quintana Roo, Mexico
L. Vidal and M. Basurto
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