Mortality of brown-shrimp discards from the beam trawl fishery in the Tagus estuary, Portugal

Fisheries Research

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 423-427

  Gamito, Rita ^a   Cabral, Henrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Beam trawl; Bycatch; Crangon crangon; Discards; Mortality

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; CRUSTACEAN; FISHERY DISCARD; FISHING MORTALITY; TRAWLING;

PORTUGAL; TAGUS ESTUARY;

CRANGON; CRANGON CRANGON; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FARFANTEPENAEUS AZTECUS;

EID: 0038486800     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(03)00108-5     Document Type: Article

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