Changes in fisheries practices and Oystercatcher survival, recruitment and body mass in a marginal Cockle fishery

Ardea

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 199-212

  Atkinson, Philip W ^a   Clark, Nigel A ^a   Dodd, Stephen G ^b   Moss, Dorian ^c  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^b Wittan Acre   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cockles; Fishery management; Mussels; Shorebirds

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; RECRUITMENT; SHELLFISH; WADER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH SEA; THE WASH; UNITED KINGDOM; WADDEN SEA; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; CERASTODERMA EDULE; HAEMATOPODIDAE; HAEMATOPUS OSTRALEGUS; MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 33644617084     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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