Populations of inshore serranids across the Canarian Archipelago: Relationships with human pressure and implications for conservation

Biological Conservation

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-24

  Tuya, Fernando ^a   Sanchez Jerez, Pablo ^b   Haroun, Ricardo J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Canary Islands; Combers; Fishing pressure; Groupers; Hierarchical design

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; OVERFISHING; PERCIFORM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EPINEPHELUS MARGINATUS; GYMNOCEPHALUS CERNUUS; MYCTEROPERCA FUSCA; SERRANIDAE; SERRANUS SCRIBA;

EID: 28844483844     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.09.012     Document Type: Article

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