Best practices to mitigate seabird bycatch in longline, trawl and gillnet fisheries-efficiency and practical applicability

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 435, Issue , 2011, Pages 285-303

  Løkkeborg, Svein ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bycatch; Efficiency; Fisheries; Mitigation measures; Seabird mortality

Indexed keywords

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; BYCATCH; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIVING BEHAVIOR; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; GILLNET; LONGLINING; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; PELAGIC FISHERY; SEABIRD; TRAWLING;

AVES; DIOMEDEIDAE; FULMARUS GLACIALIS;

EID: 80051966443     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09227     Document Type: Review

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