Using a remote drift underwater video (DUV) to examine dredge impacts on demersal fishes and benthic habitat complexity in Foveaux Strait, Southern New Zealand

Fisheries Research

Volumn 96, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 230-237

  Carbines, Glen ^a   Cole, Russell G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Dredging; Drift underwater video (DUV); Estimating fish abundance; Fishing disturbance; Habitat complexity; Video transects

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; OPHIUROIDEA; OSTREA CHILENSIS; OSTREIDAE; PARAPERCIS COLIAS; PARIKA SCABER; PISCES; PSEUDOLABRUS MILES; SQUALUS; SQUALUS ACANTHIAS; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 59249085759     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2008.11.007     Document Type: Article

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