Estimating fishery bycatch and effects on a vulnerable seabird population

Ecological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 743-753

  Lewison, Rebecca L ^a   Crowder, Larry B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Albatross; Bycatch; Fisheries impact; Mortality; Pelagic longline fisheries; Phoebastria nigripes; Population effects; Seabird

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; SEABIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

DIOMEDEA; DIOMEDEA AMSTERDAMENSIS; DIOMEDEA EXULANS; DIOMEDEA NIGRIPES; PHOEBASTRIA NIGRIPES; PROCELLARIA; PROCELLARIA CONSPICILLATA;

EID: 0346361838     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2003)013[0743:EFBAEO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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