Sustainable fishing gear: The case of modified circle hooks in a Costa Rican longline fishery

Marine Biology

Volumn 158, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 757-767

  Swimmer, Yonat ^a   Suter, Jenny ^b   Arauz, Randall ^c   Bigelow, Keith ^a   López, Andrés ^c   Zanela, Ilena ^c   Bolaños, Alan ^c   Ballestero, Jorge ^c   Suárez, Raúl ^c   Wang, John ^d   Boggs, Christofer ^a  

^a PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c PRETOMA and Sea Turtle Restoration Program   (Costa Rica)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BYCATCH; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; CATCH STATISTICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISHERY DISCARD; FISHING GEAR; LONGLINING; NONTARGET ORGANISM; SHARK; SURVIVORSHIP; SUSTAINABILITY; TAXONOMY; TURTLE;

COSTA RICA;

ANIMALIA; CHELONIIDAE; CHONDRICHTHYES; CORYPHAENA HIPPURUS; SCOMBRIDAE; TESTUDINES; XIPHIIDAE;

EID: 79952985089     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-010-1604-4     Document Type: Article

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