Bycatch and discards by Taiwanese large-scale tuna longline fleets in the Indian Ocean

Fisheries Research

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 261-270

  Huang, Hsiang Wen ^a   Liu, Kwang Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bycatch; Discards; Indian Ocean; Sea turtles; Seabirds; Tuna catches; Tuna longline fisheries

Indexed keywords

AVES; CETACEA; CHELONIIDAE; CHONDRICHTHYES; GEMPYLIDAE; ISTIOPHORUS; LEPIDOCHELYS OLIVACEA; PRIONACE GLAUCA; SCOMBRIDAE; TESTUDINES; THALASSARCHE CHLORORHYNCHOS; THUNNUS ALALUNGA; THUNNUS ALBACARES; THUNNUS MACCOYII; THUNNUS OBESUS; XIPHIAS GLADIUS;

EID: 78149413850     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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