Use of shark fin trade data to estimate historic total shark removals in the Atlantic Ocean

Aquatic Living Resources

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 373-381

  Clarke, Shelley ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fish catch statistics; Fishery products; Sharks, Prionace glauca, Isurus oxyrinchus, Carcharhinus longimanus, Alopias spp.; Trade

Indexed keywords

CATCH COMPOSITION; CATCH STATISTICS; FISHING EFFORT; GLOBAL TRADE; IMPORT; LONGLINING; SHARK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

ALOPIAS; CARCHARHINUS LONGIMANUS; CHONDRICHTHYES; ISURUS OXYRINCHUS; PRIONACE GLAUCA; SCOMBRIDAE; XIPHIIDAE;

EID: 57349084650     PISSN: 09907440     EISSN: 17652952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/alr:2008060     Document Type: Article

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