Can we define target species in Mediterranean trawl fisheries?

Fisheries Research

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 431-435

  Stergiou, Konstantinos I ^a   Machias, Athanassios ^b   Somarakis, Stylianos ^b   Kapantagakis, Argyris ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Incidental catch; Mediterranean; Target species; Trawl fisheries

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; CATCH COMPOSITION; MULTISPECIES FISHERY; TRAWLING;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0037414941     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(02)00016-4     Document Type: Article

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