Distribution, demography, and discard mortality of crabs caught as bycatch in an experimental pot fishery for toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) in the South Atlantic

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 874-888

  Purves, Martin G ^a,b   Agnew, David J ^c   Moreno, Guillermo ^d   Daw, Tim ^d   Yau, Cynthia ^e   Pilling, Graham ^f  

^a MARINE AND COASTAL MANAGEMENT   (South Africa)

^b Resources Assessment Group   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Marine Resources Assessment Group   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^f Ctr Environ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; CRAB; DEMOGRAPHY; FISHERY DISCARD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORTALITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DISSOSTICHUS ELEGINOIDES; LITHODIDAE; PARALOMIS;

EID: 0344495586     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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