Is 80-year-old mistake leading to first species to be fished to extinction?

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 04:49 in Biology & Nature

A species of common skate is to become the first marine fish species to be driven to extinction by commercial fishing, due to an error of species classification 80 years ago, reveals research published today in the journal Aquatic Conservation...

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