The rollerball net: A new approach to environmentally friendly ottertrawl design

Archive of Fishery and Marine Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 193-203

  Ball, Brendan ^a   Linnane, Adrian ^a   Munday, Brian ^a   Davies, Robin ^a   McDonnell, James ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b Geat Tech Ltd   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; CATCH COMPOSITION; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING GEAR; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TRAWL NET;

IRELAND;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037277965     PISSN: 09441921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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