Trial of a tractor dredger for cockles in Burry Inlet, South Wales

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 72-83

  Cotter, A J R ^a   Walker, P ^a   Coates, P ^b   Cook, W ^c   Dare, P J ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b Queens Buildings   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burry Inlet; Cerastoderma edule; cockle; South Wales; tractor dredging

Indexed keywords

CLAM FISHERIES; COCKLE; DREDGER; DREDGING; HARVESTING; TRACTOR DREDGER; TRIAL;

UK, WALES, BURRY INLET;

CERASTODERMA EDULE; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0031060972     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmsc.1996.0182     Document Type: Article

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