Mortality of dolphins and porpoises in coastal fisheries off Peru and southern Ecuador in 1994

Biological Conservation

Volumn 81, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 43-49

  Van Waerebeek, Koen ^a   Van Bressem, Marie Françoise ^a   Félix, Fernando ^b   Alfaro Shigueto, Joanna ^a   García Godos, Aquiles ^a   Chávez Lisambart, Laura ^a,c   Ontón, Karina ^a   Montes, David ^a   Bello, Ruth ^a  

^a Peruvian Ctr for Cetacean Research   (Peru)

^b Fund Ecuatoriana Estud Los M   (Ecuador)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecuador; gillnets; monitoring; Peru; small cetaceans

Indexed keywords

CETACEANS; COASTAL FISHERIES; COASTAL FISHERY; FISHING MORTALITY; GILLNET; GILLNETS; MAMMALS; MARINE MAMMAL;

EQUADOR; PERU;

CETACEA; CORYPHAENIDAE; DELPHINUS CAPENSIS; DELPHINUS DELPHIS; LAGENORHYNCHUS OBSCURUS; MAMMALIA; PHOCOENA SPINIPINNIS; PHOCOENIDAE; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0030619233     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(96)00152-8     Document Type: Article

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