Using telemetry to mitigate the bycatch of long-lived marine vertebrates

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1660-1671

  McClellan, Catherine M ^a   Read, Andrew J ^a   Price, Blake A ^b   Cluse, Wendy M ^c   Godfrey, Matthew H ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries   (United States)

^c North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission   (United States)

^d North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission   (United States)

Author keywords

Bycatch; Caretta caretta; Chelonia mydas; Gill net fishery; Lepidochelys kempii; Marine vertebrates; North carolina, USA; Pamlico sound; Paralichthys lethostigma; Satellite telemetry; Sea turtle; Southern flounder; Spatial overlap index

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; GILLNET; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REAL TIME; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TELEMETRY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FLOUNDER; FOOD INDUSTRY; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEMETRY; TURTLE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FISHERIES; FLOUNDER; NORTH CAROLINA; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; TELEMETRY; TURTLES;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; PAMLICO SOUND; UNITED STATES;

CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; LEPIDOCHELYS KEMPII; PARALICHTHYS LETHOSTIGMA; PLEURONECTOIDEI; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 69449092529     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1091.1     Document Type: Article

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