Sizes of discarded commercial species in the eastern-central Mediterranean Sea

Fisheries Research

Volumn 66, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 213-222

  Machias, A ^a   Maiorano, P ^b   Vassilopoulou, V ^a   Papaconstantinou, C ^a   Tursi, A ^b   Tsimenides, N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Discarding sizes; Discards; Mediterranean trawl species

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; FISHERY DISCARD; TRAWLING;

AEGEAN SEA; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

GADUS MORHUA; HESPERIIDAE;

EID: 0742323222     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(03)00202-9     Document Type: Article

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