FAD: Fish Aggregating Device or Fish Attracting Device? A new analysis of yellowfin tuna movements around floating objects

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 319-326

  Girard, Charlotte ^a   Benhamou, Simon ^b,d   Dagorn, Laurent ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UMR MARine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation (MARBEC)   (Seychelles)

^d CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; FISH; FLOATING STRUCTURE; MOVEMENT;

SCOMBRIDAE GEN. SP.; THUNNUS; THUNNUS ALBACARES;

EID: 1442265272     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.07.007     Document Type: Article

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