Crawling to Collapse: Ecologically Unsound Ornamental Invertebrate Fisheries

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Andrew Rhyne ,

* E-mail: arhyne@rwu.edu

Affiliations New England Aquarium, Edgerton Research Laboratory, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Roger Williams University, Department of Biology and Marine Biology, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Randi Rotjan,

Affiliations New England Aquarium, Edgerton Research Laboratory, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Andrew Bruckner,

Affiliation Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, Landover, Maryland, United States of America
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Michael Tlusty

Affiliation New England Aquarium, Edgerton Research Laboratory, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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