Impact of the deep sea trawl fishery on demersal communities of the northern Tyrrhenian Sea (western Mediterranean)

Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science

Volumn 31, Issue , 2003, Pages 275-284

  Sartor, Paolo ^a   Sbrana, Mario ^a   Reale, Bruno ^a   Belcari, Paola ^b  

^a Interuniversity Consortium for Marine Biology and Applied Ecology (CIBM)   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

By catch; Deep sea fishery; Demersal ichthyofauna; Discards; Trawling; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; CATCH COMPOSITION; DEEP-SEA FISHERY; ICHTHYOFAUNA; TRAWLING;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

ANTENNATUS; ARISTAEMORPHA FOLIACEA; ARISTEIDAE; ARISTEUS; ARISTEUS ANTENNATUS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA; MERLUCCIUS; MERLUCCIUS MERLUCCIUS; NEPHROPS NORVEGICUS; PARAPENAEUS LONGIROSTRIS; PISCES;

EID: 0346717802     PISSN: 02506408     EISSN: 18131859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2960/J.v31.a21     Document Type: Article

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