Recreational Fishing for Pelagic Sharks Worldwide

Sharks of the Open Ocean: Biology, Fisheries and Conservation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 193-204

  Babcock, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Alopias; Angling; Game fishing; Isurus oxyrinchus; Lamna nasus; Prionace glauca; Recreational fishing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953024035     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444302516.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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