Bycatch mitigation assessment for sharks caught in coastal anchored gillnets

Fisheries Research

Volumn 98, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 102-112

  Thorpe, Teresa ^a   Frierson, Dargan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bycatch; Gillnet; Mesh selectivity; Mitigation; Select; Sharks

Indexed keywords

CARCHARHINUS ACRONOTUS; CARCHARHINUS LIMBATUS; CHONDRICHTHYES; LEIOSTOMUS XANTHURUS; RHIZOPRIONODON TERRAENOVAE; SCOMBEROMORUS; SCOMBEROMORUS MACULATUS; SPHYRNA TIBURO; SPHYRNIDAE;

EID: 67349275591     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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