Quantifying the relative intensity of fishing on New Zealand seamounts

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 839-850

  O'Driscoll, Richard L ^a   Clark, Malcolm R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Deepwater fisheries; Fishing effort distribution; Impacts of trawling; Orange roughy; Seamounts

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FISHING; SEAMOUNT;

AUSTRALASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW ZEALAND; WORLD;

HOPLOSTETHUS ATLANTICUS; OREOSOMA ATLANTICUM; PSEUDOCYTTUS MACULATUS;

EID: 22944456844     PISSN: 00288330     EISSN: 11758805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2005.9517356     Document Type: Article

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