Differential distribution within longline transects of loggerhead turtles and swordfish captured by the Spanish Mediterranean surface longline fishery

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 801-803

  Báez, José C ^a,b   Real, Raimundo ^b   Camiñas, Juan A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; FISHING; LONGLINING; PERCIFORM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURTLE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CARETTA CARETTA; TESTUDINES; XIPHIAS GLADIUS;

EID: 34249078529     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315407054744     Document Type: Article

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