Evaluating effects of total and partial restrictions to fishing on Mediterranean rocky-reef fish assemblages

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 387, Issue , 2009, Pages 275-285

  Di Franco, Antonio ^a   Bussotti, Simona ^a   Navone, Augusto ^b   Panzalis, Pieraugusto ^b   Guidetti, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b Marine Protected Area of Tavolara Punta Coda Cavallo   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fish assemblages; Fishing regulation; Marine protected areas; Mediterranean Sea; Partially protected areas; Visual census

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; FISHING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MARINE PARK; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REEF; ROCKY SHORE; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SARDINIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TAVOLARA-PUNTA CODA CAVALLO MARINE PROTECTED AREA;

EPINEPHELUS MARGINATUS;

EID: 68649107311     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08051     Document Type: Article

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