Quantifying the effects of fisheries on threatened species: The impact of pelagic longlines on loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 221-231

  Lewison, Rebecca L ^a   Freeman, Sloan A ^a   Crowder, Larry B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bycatch; Global fisheries; Leatherback; Loggerhead; Pelagic longlines; Pelagic vertebrates; Sea turtle

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; LONGLINING; TURTLE;

CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; DERMOCHELYIDAE; DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1642302497     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00573.x     Document Type: Article

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