Habitat management and closure of a nurse shark breeding and nursery ground

Fisheries Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 209-213

  Carrier, Jeffrey C ^a   Pratt, Harold L ^b  

^a ALBION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding; Closure; Conservation; Elasmobranch; Ginglymostoma cirratum; Management; Mating; Nursery; P rotection; Shark

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NURSERY GROUND;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CHONDRICHTHYES; GINGLYMOSTOMA CIRRATUM; PISCES;

EID: 0032535453     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(98)00184-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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