Improving selectivity of the Baltic cod pelagic trawl fishery: Experiments to assess the next step

Fisheries Research

Volumn 103, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 40-47

  Madsen, Niels ^a   Tschernij, Vesa ^b   Holst, Renè ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Institute of Marine Research   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Cod; Escape windows; Gadus morhua; Size selectivity; Trawl

Indexed keywords

EQUUS ASINUS; GADUS CALLARIAS; GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 77949569070     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2010.01.011     Document Type: Article

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