Catch rates and demographics of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) captured from the Charleston, South Carolina, shipping channel during the period of mandatory use of turtle excluder devices (TEDs)

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 98-109

  Arendt, Michael D ^a   David Whitaker, J ^a   Schwenter, Jeffrey A ^a   Owens, David W ^b   Segars, Albert L ^a   Blanvillain, Gaëlle ^b   Byrd, Julia I ^a   Quattro, Joseph M ^c   Maier, Philip P ^a   Roberts, Mark A ^c  

^a SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^b Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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