Protected species bycatch estimating approaches: Estimating harbor porpoise bycatch in U. S. northwestern Atlantic gillnet fisheries

Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science

Volumn 42, Issue , 2009, Pages 55-76

  Orphanides, Christopher D ^a  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bycatch; Bycatch estimates; Fisheries; Generalized additive models; Gillnet; Harbor porpoise; Marine mammal; Phocoena phocoena; Ratio estimators

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960621040     PISSN: 02506408     EISSN: 18131859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2960/J.v42.m647     Document Type: Article

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