Survival rates of sea snakes caught by demersal trawlers in northern and eastern Australia

Biological Conservation

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 271-280

  Wassenberg, T J ^a   Milton, D A ^a   Burridge, C Y ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bycatch; Fisheries; Mortality; Prawn trawling

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; DEMERSAL FISHERY; SNAKE; SURVIVAL; TRAWLING;

AUSTRALIA;

HYDROPHIINAE; HYDROPHIS ELEGANS; HYDROPHIS ORNATUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 0034948250     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(01)00031-3     Document Type: Article

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