Subsampling multi-species trawl catches from tropical northern Australia: Does it matter which part of the catch is sampled?

Fisheries Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 117-126

  Heales, D S ^a   Brewer, D T ^a   Wang, Y G ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bycatch; Northern Prawn Fishery; Prawn trawling; Shrimp trawling; Subsampling; Tropical

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; SAMPLING; TRAWLING; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

AMUSIUM PLEURONECTES; LEIOGNATHUS MORETONIENSIS;

EID: 0033867957     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(00)00182-X     Document Type: Article

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