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Article: Fisheries and marine resources of Hawaii and the U.S.-associated Pacific Islands: an introduction. (Fisheries of Hawaii and U.S.-associated Pacific Islands)
- Article from:
- Marine Fisheries Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1993
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Introduction
Fisheries of Hawaii and the U.S. insular Pacific are quite different from typical industrial and recreational fisheries of the mainland U.S. Fisheries productivity in coastal waters of these tropical and subtropical islands may be similar to that in temperate continental shelf-slope fish communities (Marten and Polovina, 1982), but the higher species diversity results in more diverse, lower volume fisheries. Larger, commercial fisheries are often dependent upon deep water, slope-dwelling species or the highly migratory pelagics such as tunas and billfishes. Although land masses in this region are small, the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) ...