Incidental catch and estimated discards of pelagic sharks from the swordfish and tuna fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 620-634

  Megalofonou, Persefoni ^a   Yannopoulos, Constantinos ^a   Damalas, Dimitrios ^a   De Metrio, Gregorio ^b   Deflorio, Michele ^b   De La Serna, Jose M ^c   Macias, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; CATCH COMPOSITION; FISHERY DISCARD; FISHING GEAR; SHARK;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ALOPIAS VULPINUS; CHONDRICHTHYES; GALEORHINUS GALEUS; ISURUS; ISURUS OXYRINCHUS; PRIONACE GLAUCA; SCOMBRIDAE GEN. SP.; THUNNUS ALALUNGA; XIPHIAS GLADIUS;

EID: 28244446224     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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