Fish Basket (IMAGE)

Wildlife Conservation Society

Fish Basket

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This is a basket full of paddle-tail snappers. A newly published 17-year study by the Wildlife Conservation Society has found that implementing stricter fisheries management overcame the expected detrimental effects of climate change disturbances in coral reef fisheries badly impacted by the 1997/98 El Nino.

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Tim McClanahan

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