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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">PLoS ONE</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>PLoS ONE</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">1932-6203</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Public Library of Science</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>San Francisco, USA</publisher-loc>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="pmcid">3033217</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="pmid">21346793</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/annotation/6df4032b-49ed-4e74-a960-37a107827dd5</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Retraction</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Retraction: Fisheries and Marine Animal Populations: Learning from the Long Term</article-title>
        <alt-title alt-title-type="running-head">Retraction</alt-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Starkey</surname>
            <given-names>David J.</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Smith</surname>
            <given-names>Tim D.</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Barnard</surname>
            <given-names>Michaela</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2011</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>03</day>
        <month>2</month>
        <year>2011</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="ecorrected">
        <day>09</day>
        <month>2</month>
        <year>2011</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>6</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <elocation-id>10.1371/annotation/6df4032b-49ed-4e74-a960-37a107827dd5</elocation-id>
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        <copyright-year>2011</copyright-year><license xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">Creative Commons Attribution License</ext-link>, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p></license>
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      <related-article xlink:href="info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0016011" related-article-type="retracted-article" ext-link-type="uri" vol="6" page="e16011" id="d32e78" xlink:type="simple">
        <article-title>Fisheries and Marine Animal Populations: Learning from the Long
                    Term</article-title>
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    <author-notes><fn fn-type="conflict"><p>No competing interests declared.</p></fn></author-notes></article-meta>
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  <body><p>It has been brought to the attention of the PLoS ONE Editors that a substantial part of the text in this article was appropriated from text in the following publication:

Holm P, Marboe AH, Poulsen B, MacKenzie BR (2010) Marine animal populations: A new look back in time. In: McIntyre AD, editor. Life in the world’s oceans. London (WileyBlackwell), 2010.

The first author of the article, Dr Starkey, has claimed responsibility for the problem that has led to the withdrawal of this overview.

PLoS ONE therefore retracts this article due to the identified case of plagiarism.</p></body><back>
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