Interactions between marine mammals and fisheries: Implications for cod recovery

Ecosystem Ecology Research Trends

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 107-152

  Savenkoff, Claude ^a   Morissette, Lyne ^a,b   Castonguay, Martin ^a   Swain, Douglas P ^c   Hammill, Mike O ^a   Chabot, Denis ^a   Mark Hanson, J ^c  

^a MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c GULF FISHERIES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cod collapse; Food webs; Gulf of St. Lawrence(Canada); Inverse methods; Regime shift; Seal predation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954408406     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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