Net-entrapment of great cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis in relation to individual age and population size

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 143-150

  Bregnballe, Thomas ^a   Frederiksen, Morten ^b  

^a Kaloe   (Denmark)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bycatch; Cormorants; Drowning; Fykes; Management; Pound nets

Indexed keywords

AVES; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX CARBO; PHALACROCORAX CARBO SINENSIS;

EID: 33745887217     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/0909-6396(2006)12[143:NOGCPC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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