Assessing accidental entanglement as a threat to the Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus

Endangered Species Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 205-213

  Karamanlidis, Alexandros A ^a   Androukaki, Evgenia ^a   Adamantopoulou, Stella ^a   Chatzispyrou, Archontia ^a   Johnson, William M ^b   Kotomatas, Spyros ^a   Papadopoulos, Anastasios ^c   Paravas, Vangelis ^a   Paximadis, Giorgos ^d   Pires, Rosa ^e   Tounta, Eleni ^a   Dendrinos, Panagiotis ^a  

^a MOm/Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal   (Greece)

^b The Monachus Guardian   (Switzerland)

^c Fisheries Research Institute   (Greece)

^d WWF Greece   (Greece)

^e Parque Natural da Madeira   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Accidental entanglement; Conservation; Endangered species; Greece; Madeira; Mediterranean monk seal; Seal fishery interactions

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISHING GEAR; PINNIPED; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MACARONESIA; MADEIRA; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

MONACHUS MONACHUS;

EID: 55449125776     PISSN: 18635407     EISSN: 16134796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/esr00092     Document Type: Article

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