Specifications for the construction and installation of two by-catch reducing devices (BRDs) used in New South Wales prawn-trawl fisheries

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 485-489

  Broadhurst, M K ^a   Kennelly, S J ^a   O'Doherty, G ^a  

^a NSW Fisheries Research Institute   (Australia)

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EID: 0031445674     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF97049     Document Type: Article

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