Influence of water temperature and fish length on the maximum swimming speed of sand flathead, Platycephalus bassensis: Implications for trawl selectivity

Fisheries Research

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 180-188

  Yanase, Kazutaka ^a   Eayrs, Steve ^b   Arimoto, Takafumi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bycatch; Discards; Maximum swimming speed; Platycephalus bassensis; Sand flathead; Selectivity; Trawl

Indexed keywords

PLATYCEPHALUS ARENARIUS; PLATYCEPHALUS BASSENSIS;

EID: 33847028002     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2006.10.015     Document Type: Article

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