Incidental capture and mortality of sea turtles in the industrial shrimp trawling fishery of Northeastern Venezuela;Captura incidental y mortalidad de tortugas marinas en la pesquería industrial de camarones por arrastre en el Noreste de Venezuela

Ciencias Marinas

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 161-178

  Alio J J ^a   Marcano, L A ^a   Altuve, D E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRÍCOLAS INIA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Caribbean sea; CPUE; Distribution; Size structure

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE METHOD; FEEDING GROUND; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; SHRIMP FISHERY; SIZE STRUCTURE; TRAWLING; TURTLE;

ATLANTIC COAST [SOUTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; VENEZUELA;

CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA; ERETMOCHELYS IMBRICATA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 77954378200     PISSN: 01853880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7773/cm.v36i2.1663     Document Type: Article

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