Documenting the bycatch of harbor porpoises, Phocoena phocoena, in coastal gillnet fisheries from stranded carcasses

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 727-734

  Cox, Tara M ^a   Read, Andrew J ^a   Barco, Susan ^b   Evans, Joyce ^c   Gannon, Damon P ^a   Koopman, Heather N ^a   McLellan, William A ^d   Murray, Kimberly ^a   Nicolas, John ^e   Pabst, D Ann ^d   Potter, Charles W ^f   Swingle, W Mark ^b   Thayer, Victoria G ^g   Touhey, Kathleen M ^g   Westgate, Andrew J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Virginia Marine Science Museum   (United States)

^c MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^e NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^f DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^g SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; COASTAL WATERS; GILLNET; PORPOISE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031782173     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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