Fishing mortality versus natural predation on diurnally migrating sandeels Ammodytes marinus

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 369, Issue , 2008, Pages 213-227

  Engelhard, Georg H ^a   Van Der Kooij, Jeroen ^a   Bell, Ewen D ^a   Pinnegar, John K ^a   Blanchard, Julia L ^a   Mackinson, Steven ^a   Righton, David A ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diurnal movements; Ecosystem impacts; Fishing effort; Industrial fishery; Lesser weever; Predator prey links; Sandeels; Whiting

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIURNAL ACTIVITY; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EEL; FISHING; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; PREDATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DOGGER BANK; NORTH SEA;

AMMODYTES MARINUS; ECHIICHTHYS VIPERA; PISCES;

EID: 56149122224     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07575     Document Type: Article

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