Catch composition and damage incurred to crabs discarded from the eastern Ligurian Sea "rapido" trawl fishery

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 557, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 121-133

  Sartor, P ^a   Francesconi, B ^b   Rossetti, I ^b   De Ranieri, S ^a  

^a CIBM Centro Interuniversitario di Biologia Marina Ed Ecologia Applicata   (Italy)

^b APLYSIA pscrl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crustaceans; Damage; Discard; Fishing impact; Trawling; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DATA MINING; FISHERIES; MORPHOLOGY;

DISCARD; FISHING IMPACT; TRAWLING; WESTERN MEDITERRANIAN;

BIODIVERSITY;

BODY SIZE; CATCH COMPOSITION; CRAB; DAMAGE; FISHERY DISCARD; TRAWLING;

LIGURIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GONEPLAX RHOMBOIDES; LIOCARCINUS DEPURATOR;

EID: 29944436357     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-005-1315-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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