Use of multi-mesh gillnets and trammel nets to estimate fish species composition in coral Reef and mangroves in the Southwest Coast of Puerto Rico

Caribbean Journal of Science

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 45-57

  Acosta, Alejandro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b FLORIDA MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL REEF; CORAL REEFS; GILLNET; GILLNETS; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MANGROVE; MANGROVE SWAMPS; SAMPLING; TRAMMEL NETS;

PUERTO RICO, LA PARGUERA;

EID: 0030710138     PISSN: 00086452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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