Spatiotemporal patterns of catch and discards of the Israeli Mediterranean trawl fishery in the early 1990s: Ecological and conservation perspectives;Patrones espacio-temporales de la captura y los descartes de pesquería de arrastre Mediterránea Israelí al inicio de la década de los noventa: Perspectivas ecológicas y de conservación

Scientia Marina

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 641-652

  Edelist, Dor ^a   Sonin, Oren ^a,b   Golani, Daniel ^c   Rilov, Gil ^d   Spanier, Ehud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b EXTENSION SERVICE   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bottom trawl; Catch composition; Discards; Fishery management; Israel; Lessepsian migration

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CATCH STATISTICS; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; DATA SET; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; JUVENILE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAWLING;

ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 80053617837     PISSN: 02148358     EISSN: 18868134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3989/scimar.2011.75n4641     Document Type: Article

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