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Description: California Commercial White Abalone Haliotis sorenseni Landings for 1972–1992. open squares - commercial catch per effort unit left y axis - thousands of pounds of shell per vessel filled circles - price of Haliotis sorenseni right y axis - US$ per pound The price exponentially increased as catch decreased. The catch takes the fishing effort into account, so that decreased catch does not come from a diminishing effort. Results are given as weight in shell divided by the number of ships (open squares) and price (filled circles).
Title: Haliotis sorenseni 2
Credit: Courchamp F., Angulo E., Rivalan P., Hall R. J., Signoret L., Bull L. & Meinard Y. (2006) "Rarity Value and Species Extinction: The Anthropogenic Allee Effect". PLoS Biology 4(12): e415. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040415. figure 3 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040415.g003 cropped.
Author: Franck Courchamp, Elena Angulo, Philippe Rivalan, Richard J. Hall, Laetitia Signoret, Leigh Bull, Yves Meinard
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5
License: CC BY 2.5
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