Sustainability Assessment for Fishing Effects (SAFE): A new quantitative ecological risk assessment method and its application to elasmobranch bycatch in an Australian trawl fishery

Fisheries Research

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-68

  Zhou, Shijie ^a   Griffiths, Shane P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bycatch; Detection nondetection; Ecological risk assessment; Fishing effects; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 41949122195     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2007.11.007     Document Type: Article

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