Catch rates and biological characteristics of bluntnose sixgill sharks in Puget Sound

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 108-116

  Williams, Gregory D ^a   Andrews, Kelly S ^a   Farrer, Deborah A ^b   Levin, Phillip S ^a  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGLING; CATCH STATISTICS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; LONGLINING; PREDATOR; SAMPLING; SHARK; URBANIZATION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; ELLIOTT BAY; GEORGIA BASIN; PUGET SOUND; SEATTLE; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

CHONDRICHTHYES; HEXANCHUS GRISEUS;

EID: 77958525935     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-045.1     Document Type: Article

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