Tuna longline fishing around west and central pacific seamounts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Morato, Telmo ^a,b   Hoyle, Simon D ^a   Allain, Valerie ^a   Nicol, Simon J ^a  

^a SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY   (New Caledonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SEAMOUNT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOPOGRAPHY; TUNA; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD INDUSTRY; GEOGRAPHY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SEA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

SCOMBRIDAE; THUNNUS ALALUNGA;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; GEOGRAPHY; LINEAR MODELS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OCEANS AND SEAS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TUNA;

EID: 78650846192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014453     Document Type: Article

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