Blue and green fish aggregation devices are more attractive to fish

Fisheries Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 99-108

  Kawamura, Gunzo ^a   Matsushita, Tomohiro ^a   Nishitai, Mikio ^b   Matsuoka, Tatsuro ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kagoshima Pref Fish Exp Station   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colour of FAD; FAD; Fish aggregation; Underwater visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030218065     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-7836(96)00478-X     Document Type: Article

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