Effects of species misidentification on population assessment of overfished white marlin Tetrapturus albidus and roundscale spearfish T. georgii

Endangered Species Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 81-90

  Beerkircher, Lawrence ^a   Arocha, Freddy ^b   Barse, Ann ^c   Prince, Eric ^a   Restrepo, Victor ^d   Serafy, Joseph ^a   Shivji, Mahmood ^e  

^a SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ORIENTE   (Venezuela)

^c SALISBURY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas   (Spain)

^e NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Population assessments; Roundscale spearfish; Species identification; White marlin

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; OVERFISHING; PERCIFORM; POPULATION GROWTH; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

ISTIOPHORINAE; TETRAPTURUS ALBIDUS; TETRAPTURUS GEORGEI;

EID: 77952260454     PISSN: 18635407     EISSN: 16134796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/esr00234     Document Type: Article

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