Eating fish in the age of anthropogenic climate change: imaginaries and sociogenesis of representations of changes in fish quality

Special Issue - Small pelagic fish in changing social-ecological systems

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Issue		Aquat. Living Resour. Volume 39, 2026 Special Issue - Small pelagic fish in changing social-ecological systems


Article Number		15
Number of page(s)		15
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/alr/2026007
Published online		12 June 2026

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