Integrated weight longlines with paired streamer lines - Best practice to prevent seabird bycatch in demersal longline fisheries

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1793-1805

  Dietrich, Kimberly S ^a   Melvin, Edward F ^a   Conquest, Loveday ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bycatch reduction; Cooperative research; Integrated weight longline; Mitigation; Seabird fishery interaction; Sink rate

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; BYCATCH; DEMERSAL FISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GADOID; MORTALITY; SEABIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

AVES; FULMARUS GLACIALIS; GADUS MACROCEPHALUS; LARUS; PROCELLARIIDAE; PUFFINUS TENUIROSTRIS;

EID: 46749101634     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.04.023     Document Type: Article

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