Population impacts of endangered short-tailed albatross bycatch in the Alaskan trawl fishery

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 872-882

  Zador, Stephani G ^a   Punt, André E ^a   Parrish, Julia K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Decision analysis; Endangered species recovery; Phoebastria albatrus; Population dynamics; Seabird fishery interactions

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BYCATCH; DECISION ANALYSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION MODELING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEABIRD; TRAWLING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO]; TORISHIMA ISLAND;

DIOMEDEA ALBATRUS;

EID: 40349097916     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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