The impact of turtle excluder devices and bycatch reduction devices on diverse tropical marine communities in Australia's northern prawn trawl fishery

Fisheries Research

Volumn 81, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 176-188

  Brewer, David ^a   Heales, Don ^a   Milton, David ^a   Dell, Quinton ^a   Fry, Gary ^a   Venables, Bill ^a   Jones, Peter ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bycatch; Bycatch reduction devices; Prawn trawls; Sawfish; Sea snakes; Sea turtles; Shrimp trawls; Turtle excluder devices

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; FISHING GEAR; PRAWN FISHERY; TRAWLING; TURTLE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MORETON BAY; QUEENSLAND;

AMUSIUM PLEURONECTES; ANOXYPRISTIS CUSPIDATA; CEPHALOPODA; CHELONIIDAE; CHONDRICHTHYES; COLEOIDEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ELASMOBRANCHII; HYDROPHIIDAE; PECTINIDAE; PRISTIS PRISTIS; TESTUDINES; THENUS;

EID: 33748887857     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2006.07.009     Document Type: Article

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