Observations on fisheries activities at Navassa Island

Marine Fisheries Review

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 43-49

  Miller, Margaret W ^a   McClellan, D B ^a   Begin C ^b  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FISHERY; REEF; SIZE STRUCTURE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; NAVASSA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

ERETMOCHELYS IMBRICATA; STROMBUS GIGAS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 12344275623     PISSN: 00901830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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