Seabird mortality in the Patagonian toothfish longline fishery around Crozet and Kerguelen Islands, 2001-2003

CCAMLR Science

Volumn 12, Issue , 2005, Pages 53-80

  Delord, K ^a   Gasco, N ^a   Weimerskirch, H ^a   Barbraud, C ^a   Micol, T ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Territoire des Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Albatross; CCAMLR; French EEZ; Incidental mortality; Longline fishery; Petrel; Procellariids; Seabirds

Indexed keywords

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRIS; DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRYS; DISSOSTICHUS ELEGINOIDES; MACRONECTES; PROCELLARIA AEQUINOCTIALIS; PROCELLARIA CINEREA; PROCELLARIIDAE;

EID: 28044453905     PISSN: 10234063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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