Geographical information systems-based models for offshore floating marine fish cage aquaculture site selection in Tenerife, Canary Islands

Aquaculture Research

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 946-961

  Pérez, Oscar M ^a,b   Telfer, Trevor C ^a   Ross, Lindsay G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b Investigaciones Y Servicios Marinios (INSEMAR)   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Cage culture; GIS; Site selection; Tenerife

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; GIS; SITE SELECTION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; OCEANIC REGIONS; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TENERIFE; WORLD;

DICENTRARCHUS LABRAX; SPARUS AURATA;

EID: 22544459659     PISSN: 1355557X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2005.01282.x     Document Type: Article

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