Diets of thornback ray (Raja clavata) and tope shark (Galeorhinus galeus) in the bottom longline fishery of the Azores, northeastern Atlantic

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 590-602

  Morato, Telmo ^a   Solà, Encarnacion ^a   Grós, Maria P ^a   Menezes, Gui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPTH; DIET; HABITAT TYPE; SHARK; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

CAPROS APER; CEPHALOPODA; CHONDRICHTHYES; CRUSTACEA; GALEORHINUS GALEUS; GALEUS; ISOPODA; MACRORAMPHOSUS SCOLOPAX; MYSIDA; PISCES; PLATYRHINOIDIS TRISERIATA; POLYCHAETA; RAJA; RAJA CLAVATA; SCOLOPAX; TELEOST FISH; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1342331935     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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