Sustainability of elasmobranchs caught as bycatch in a tropical prawn (shrimp) trawl fishery

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 800-821

  Stobutzki, Ilona C ^a   Miller, Margaret J ^a   Heales, Don S ^a   Brewer, David T ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FISH; PRAWN FISHERY; SUSTAINABILITY;

AUSTRALIA;

CARCHARHINUS DUSSUMIERI; CARCHARHINUS TILSTONI; DASYATIS BREVICAUDATA; HIMANTURA JENKINSII; HIMANTURA TOSHI; RHYNCHOBATUS DJIDDENSIS;

EID: 0036804050     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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