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| Long-term trends in the glasseels immigrating at Den Oever, the Netherlands W Dekker Bulletin Français de la Pêche et de la Pisciculture, 199-214, 1998 | 91 | 1998 |
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| Impact of yellow eel exploitation on spawner production in Lake IJsselmeer, the Netherlands W Dekker Dana 12, 17-32, 2000 | 85 | 2000 |
| Coming to grips with the eel stock slip-sliding away W Dekker International governance of fisheries ecosystems: learning from the past …, 2008 | 83 | 2008 |
| What caused the decline of the Lake IJsselmeer eel stock after 1960? W Dekker ICES Journal of Marine Science 61 (3), 394-404, 2004 | 78 | 2004 |
| The history of commercial fisheries for European eel commenced only a century ago W Dekker Fisheries Management and Ecology 26 (1), 6-19, 2019 | 68 | 2019 |
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| The 2003 Québec declaration of concern about eel declines—11 years later: are eels climbing back up the slippery slope? W Dekker, JM Casselman Fisheries 39 (12), 613-614, 2014 | 65 | 2014 |
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