With ever-increasing recreational fishing demands on natural habitats, artificial reefs provide an effective means for delivering additional opportunities for marine and freshwater fishermen.
Milton S. Love, Donna M. Schroeder, William Lenarz, Alec MacCall, Ann Scarborough Bull, and Lyman Thorsteinson
From the Abstract: "Although bocaccio (Sebastes paucispinis) was an economically important rockfish species along the west coast of North America, overfishing has reduced the stock to about 7.4% of its former unfished population.