Reducing seabird strikes with trawl cables in the pollock catcher-processor fleet in the eastern Bering Sea

Polar Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 215-226

  Melvin, Edward F ^a   Dietrich, Kimberly S ^a   Fitzgerald, Shannon ^b   Cardoso, Tamre ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c TerraStat Consulting Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative research; Seabird bycatch; Trawl fisheries; Trawl seabird mitigation; Walleye pollock

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; FISHING VESSEL; GADOID; MITIGATION; MORTALITY; SEABIRD; TRAWL NET;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

AVES; POLLACHIUS; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 79551682477     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-010-0873-1     Document Type: Article

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