Selectivity and efficiency of two otter trawls used to assess estuarine fish and macroinvertebrate populations in North Carolina

Estuaries

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 882-888

  Stokesbury, Kevin D E ^a,b   Bichy, John B ^a   Ross, Steve W ^a  

^a N Carolina Natl Estuarine Res R   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ESTUARINE ORGANISM; GEAR SELECTIVITY; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MACROINVERTEBRATE; TRAWLING;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CARNIVORA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FARFANTEPENAEUS AZTECUS; GADUS MORHUA; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LEIOSTOMUS XANTHURUS; PENAEUS; PISCES;

EID: 0033388794     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1353068     Document Type: Article

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