Circle hooks for pacific longliners: Not a panacea for marlin and shark bycatch, but part of the solution

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 392-401

  Kaplan, Isaac C ^a,c   Cox, Sean P ^b   Kitchell, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BYCATCH; CATCHABILITY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; PERCIFORM; SHARK; SURVIVAL;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

AUXIS; CHONDRICHTHYES; CORYPHAENA HIPPURUS; MAKAIRA; MAKAIRA NIGRICANS; PRIONACE GLAUCA; SCOMBRIDAE; TETRAPTURUS AUDAX; THUNNUS ALBACARES;

EID: 34247250801     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-301.1     Document Type: Article

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