Robust estimates of decline for pelagic shark populations in the northwest Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

Fisheries

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 27-30

  Baum, J K ^a   Kehler, D ^b   Myers, R A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

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