Utility and efficiency of multi-mesh gill nets and trammel nets for sampling assemblages and populations of estuarine fish

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1077-1088

  Gray, Charles A ^a   Jones, Martine V ^a   Rotherham, Douglas ^a   Broadhurst, Matt K ^b   Johnson, Daniel D ^a   Barnes, Lachlan M ^a  

^a NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

CPUE; Fishery independent survey; Power; Variation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; GILLNET; METHODOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 27944437516     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF05056     Document Type: Article

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