Status, trends and management of sturgeon and paddlefish fisheries

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 233-265

  Pikitch, Ellen K ^a,b   Doukakis, Phaedra ^a,b   Lauck, Liz ^c   Chakrabarty, Prosanta ^d   Erickson, Daniel L ^c  

^a Pew Institute for Ocean Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acipenseriformes; Aquaculture; Caviar; Conservation; Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ACIPENSERIDAE; ACIPENSERIFORMES; PISCES; POLYODON SPATHULA; POLYODONTIDAE (FISH);

EID: 29144487982     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2005.00190.x     Document Type: Review

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