Offshore distribution of Hector's dolphins at Banks Peninsula, New Zealand: Is the Banks Peninsula Marine Mammal sanctuary large enough?

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 333-343

  Slooten, Elisabeth ^a   Rayment, William ^a   Dawson, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aerial survey; Banks Peninsula Marine Mammal Sanctuary; Bycatch; Effective survey design; Gill net entanglement; Hector's dolphin; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

AERIAL SURVEY; BYCATCH; DOLPHIN; GILLNET; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AUSTRALASIA; BANKS PENINSULA; CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33746504599     PISSN: 00288330     EISSN: 11758805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2006.9517425     Document Type: Article

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