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Rotating harvest in a sea cucumber fishery

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A study finds that a spatially rotating harvest strategy may improve the biological and economic health of fisheries. Rotation of crop harvests has long been successfully applied to agriculture, and may confer similar benefits on marine species with low mobility, such as sea cucumbers, scallops, and abalone. Éva E. Plagányi and colleagues modeled the species dynamics of the sea cucumber fishery in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

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