Seabird interactions with coastal fisheries in northern Patagonia: Use of discards and incidental captures in nets

Waterbirds

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 207-216

  Yorio, P ^a   Caille, G ^b  

^a Fundacion Patagonia Natural   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA SAN JUAN BOSCO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Black browed Albatross; Bycatch; Commercial fisheries; Diomedea melanophris; Kelp Gull; Larus dominicanus; Patagonia; Seabirds

Indexed keywords

COASTAL FISHERY; FISHERY DISCARD; MORTALITY; SEABIRD;

(SOUTHWEST); ARGENTINA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; PATAGONIA;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRIS; DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRYS; LARIDAE; LARUS DOMINICANUS; PHALACROCORAX ATRICEPS; PROCELLARIA AEQUINOCTIALIS; SPHENISCIDAE; SPHENISCUS MAGELLANICUS; STERNA HIRUNDINACEA;

EID: 0033361266     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1522209     Document Type: Article

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