Estimates of juvenile and adult raggedtooth shark (Carcharias taurus) abundance along the east coast of South Africa

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 621-632

  Dicken, Matthew Laurence ^a,c   Booth, Anthony John ^a   Smale, Malcolm John ^b  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b PORT ELIZABETH MUSEUM   (South Africa)

^c Straits Research   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ADULT; COASTAL ZONE; ESTIMATION METHOD; JUVENILE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MODELING; MORTALITY; MUSEUM; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; SHARK; SURVIVAL;

AFRICA; EASTERN CAPE; PORT ELIZABETH; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CARCHARIAS TAURUS; CHONDRICHTHYES;

EID: 41649115611     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F07-190     Document Type: Article

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