Bycatch and discards of the Kuwait shrimp fishery

Fisheries Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-19

  Ye, Yimin ^a   Alsaffar, A H ^a   Mohammed, H M A ^a  

^a KUWAIT INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Bycatch; Discards; Kuwait; Penaeid shrimp

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; SHRIMP FISHERY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

PERSIAN GULF;

EID: 0033986501     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(99)00105-8     Document Type: Article

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