Freshwater commercial bycatch: An understated conservation problem

BioScience

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 271-280

  Raby, Graham D ^a   Colotelo, Alison H ^a   Blouin Demers, Gabriel ^b   Cooke, Steven J ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

bycatch reduction; commercial fishing; discards; gill net; mortality

Indexed keywords

LIPOTES VEXILLIFER; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS NAMAYCUSH;

EID: 79953868477     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2011.61.4.7     Document Type: Article

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