Review and evaluation of three mitigation measures - Bird-scaring line, underwater setting and line shooter - To reduce seabird bycatch in the north Atlantic longline fishery

Fisheries Research

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-16

  Løkkeborg, Svein ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Incidental bird mortality; Longlining; Mitigation measures; Mortality reduction; North Atlantic

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; LONGLINING; MITIGATION; MORTALITY; SEABIRD;

AVES; FULMARUS; FULMARUS GLACIALIS; PROCELLARIIDAE;

EID: 0037472797     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(02)00078-4     Document Type: Article

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