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All Hands on Deck: Local Ecological Knowledge and Expert Volunteers Contribute to the First Delisting of a Marine Fish Species Under the Endangered Species Act Cover

All Hands on Deck: Local Ecological Knowledge and Expert Volunteers Contribute to the First Delisting of a Marine Fish Species Under the Endangered Species Act

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
Volume 4 (2019): Issue 1
By: Kelly Andrews,  Krista Nichols,  Chris Harvey,  Nick Tolimieri,  Adam Obaza,  Ron Garner and  Danie Tonnes  
Open Access
|Dec 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.221 | Journal eISSN: 2057-4991
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Language: English
Submitted on: Nov 30, 2018
Accepted on: Jul 12, 2019
Published on: Dec 2, 2019
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
rockfish,
adaptive management,
recreational fishing,
population structure,
Puget Sound,
citizen science

© 2019 Kelly Andrews, Krista Nichols, Chris Harvey, Nick Tolimieri, Adam Obaza, Ron Garner, Danie Tonnes, published by Ubiquity Press
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