Bias in lobster tethering experiments conducted for selecting low-predation release sites

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 364, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-13

  Mills, David J ^a,b   Johnson, Craig R ^c   Gardner, Caleb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b WORLDFISH   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Experimental artefacts; Fishery enhancement; Jasus edwardsii; Predation; Spiny lobster; Tethering experiments

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FISHERY; HARVESTING; LOBSTER; MESOCOSM; MORTALITY; PREDATION; REEF; SURVIVAL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); JASUS EDWARDSII; LOBSTER; OCTOPUS; PALINURIDAE;

EID: 50149092435     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07527     Document Type: Article

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