Liftnets compare favorably with pots as harvesting fishing gear for invasive swimming crabs

Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 510-516

  Vazquez Archdale, M ^a   Anasco C P ^a   Nakagawa, A ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Charybdis japonica; Eradication; Fishing gear; Invasive; Portunus pelagicus

Indexed keywords

CATCH COMPOSITION; CRAB FISHERY; FISHING GEAR; HARVESTING; INVASIVE SPECIES;

CHARYBDIS JAPONICA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PORTUNIDAE; PORTUNUS PELAGICUS; THALAMITA SIMA;

EID: 77953527058     PISSN: 18164927     EISSN: 19960751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jfas.2010.510.516     Document Type: Article

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