Avoidance and escape behaviour by herring encountering midwater trawls

Fisheries Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-24

  Suuronen, Petri ^a   Lehtonen, Esa ^a   Wallace, John ^b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Escape; Herring; Scale loss; Swimming behaviour; Trawl avoidance

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOUR; AVOIDANCE REACTIONS; ESCAPE BEHAVIOUR; ESCAPEMENT; HERRING; MIDWATER TRAWLS; TRAWLING;

CLUPEA HARENGUS;

EID: 0030620438     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(96)00523-1     Document Type: Article

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