The importance of scale for fishing impact estimations

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 829-835

  Piet, G J ^a   Quirijns, F J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISHING; FISHING GEAR; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORTALITY; PATCHINESS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAWLING;

EID: 67649274458     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F09-042     Document Type: Article

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