Pingers, porpoises and power: Uncertainties with using pingers to reduce bycatch of small cetaceans

Biological Conservation

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 141-146

  Dawson, Stephen M ^a   Read, Andrew ^b   Slooten, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Gillnet; Incidental mortality; Pinger; Porpoise

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PINGERS; BYCATCH; CETACEAN;

EID: 0032080840     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(97)00127-4     Document Type: Article

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