First assessment of Microcosmus sabatieri (Tunicata: Ascidiacea) small-scale artisanal fishery in the South Aegean Sea (Eastern Mediterranean)

Cahiers de Biologie Marine

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 97-100

  Antoniadou, Chryssanthi ^a   Vafidis, Dimitris ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Ascidiacea; Density; Fisheries; Microcosmus sabatieri; Population structure

Indexed keywords

ARTISANAL FISHERY; FISHERY PRODUCTION; FISHERY STATISTICS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

ASCIDIACEA; MICROCOSMUS; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 42449107447     PISSN: 00079723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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