BotCam: A baited camera system for nonextractive monitoring of bottomfish species

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-67

  Merritt, Daniel ^a,b   Donovan, Mary K ^a,b   Kelley, Christopher ^a   Waterhouse, Lynn ^a   Parke, Michael ^b   Wong, Kevin ^b   Drazen, Jeffrey C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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