The impact of global positioning systems and plotters on fishing power in the northern prawn fishery, Australia

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1645-1651

  Robins, Carolyn M ^a,b   Wang, You Gan ^a   Die, David ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF RURAL SCIENCES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCH STATISTICS; FISHERY PRODUCTION; GPS; PRAWN FISHERY;

AUSTRALIA;

DECAPODA; PENAEUS ESCULENTUS; PENAEUS SEMISULCATUS;

EID: 0031772732     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f98-037     Document Type: Article

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