The Impact of Turtle Excluder Devices and Fisheries Closures on Loggerhead and Kemp's Ridley Strandings in the Western Gulf of Mexico

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1089-1097

  Lewison, Rebecca L ^a,b   Crowder, Larry B ^a   Shaver, Donna J ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONITORING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STRANDING; TURTLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; LEPIDOCHELYS KEMPII; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0344586653     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.02057.x     Document Type: Article

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