Effect of a terrapin excluder device on blue crab, callinectes sapidus, trap catches

Marine Fisheries Review

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 38-40

  Guillory, Vincent ^a   Prejean, Paul ^a  

^a LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; CRAB FISHERY; FISHING GEAR;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA; MALACLEMYS TERRAPIN;

EID: 0032469904     PISSN: 00901830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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