Seabird mortality from longline fishing in the Mediterranean Sea and Macaronesian waters: A review and a way forward

Scientia Marina

Volumn 67, Issue SUPPLEMENT 2, 2003, Pages 57-64

  Cooper, John ^a   Baccetti, Nicola ^b   Belda, Eduardo J ^c   Borg, John J ^d   Oro, Daniel ^e   Papaconstantinou, Costas ^f   Sánchez, Antonio ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^d BirdLife Malta   (Malta)

^e INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^f Hellenic Ornithological Society Athens   (Greece)

^g SocEspanola de Ornitologia BirdLife   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conservation; Longline fishing; Macaronesia; Meditarranean; Seabirds

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; LONGLINING; MORTALITY; SEABIRD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MACARONESIA;

CALONECTRIS; CALONECTRIS DIOMEDEA; DIOMEDEA; LARUS;

EID: 0141522422     PISSN: 02148358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3989/scimar.2003.67s257     Document Type: Article

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