Local ecological knowledge and marine fisheries research: The case of white hake (Urophycis tenuis) predation on juvenile American lobster (Homarus americanus)

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1191-1201

  Davis, Anthony ^a,c   Hanson, John Mark ^b   Watts, Hadley ^a   MacPherson, Holli ^a  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GULF FISHERIES CENTRE   (Canada)

^c MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISHERY MANAGEMENT; LOBSTER FISHERY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PREDATION; RESEARCH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

HOMARUS; HOMARUS AMERICANUS; LOBSTER; MILETINAE; REXEA SOLANDRI; UROPHYCIS; UROPHYCIS TENUIS;

EID: 10344221576     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F04-070     Document Type: Article

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