Validating ecological risk assessments for fisheries: Assessing the impacts of turtle excluder devices on elasmobranch bycatch populations in an Australian trawl fishery

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 395-401

  Griffiths, Shane P ^a   Brewer, David T ^a   Heales, Don S ^a   Milton, David A ^a   Stobutzki, Ilona C ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF RURAL SCIENCES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extinction; Fisheries management; Prawn; Rays; Sharks; Sustainability; Tropical

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; FISHERY; FISHING; RARE SPECIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; TURTLE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 33745099293     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF05190     Document Type: Article

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