The culture and practice of longline tuna fishing: implications for seabird by-catch mitigation

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 211-221

  Robertson, Graham ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; LONGLINING; SEABIRD; TUNA FISHERY;

EID: 0032427437     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095927090000188X     Document Type: Article

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