Necropsy findings in sea turtles taken as bycatch in the North Pacific longline fishery

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 876-880

  Work, Thierry M ^a   Balazs, George H ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; LONGLINING; TURTLE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036806244     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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