Habitat utilization and vertical movements of white marlin (Tetrapturus albidus) released from commercial and recreational fishing gears in the western North Atlantic Ocean: Inferences from short duration pop-up archival satellite tags

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 240-256

  Horodysky, Andrij Z ^a   Kerstetter, David W ^a   Latour, Robert J ^a   Graves, John E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Fishery management; Habitat; Pelagic fisheries; Tagging; White marlin

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING GEAR; HABITAT USE; PERCIFORM; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; TAGGING; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CARIBBEAN SEA; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VENEZUELA;

TETRAPTURUS ALBIDUS; XIPHIIDAE;

EID: 34247342633     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2007.00419.x     Document Type: Article

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