Flow-related effects in prawn-trawl codends: Potential for increasing the escape of unwanted fish through square-mesh panels

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-8

  Broadhurst, Matt K ^a,b   Kennelly, Steven J ^a   Eayrs, Steve ^c  

^a NSW Fisheries Research Institute   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; FLOW PATTERN; MESH SIZE; TRAWL NET;

EID: 0032925229     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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