Ecological Risk Assessment for seabird interactions in Western and Central Pacific longline fisheries

Marine Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 933-946

  Waugh, Susan M ^a   Filippi, Dominique P ^b   Kirby, David S ^c   Abraham, Edward ^d   Walker, Nathan ^e  

^a BirdLife Global Seabird Programme Forest and Bird   (New Zealand)

^b Sextant Technology Ltd   (New Zealand)

^c SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY   (New Caledonia)

^d Dragonfly Ltd   (New Zealand)

^e Ministry for Primary Industries   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ecological Risk Assessment; Fisheries; Longline; Pacific; Productivity Susceptibility Analyses; Seabird

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING EFFORT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LONGLINING; PELAGIC FISHERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEABIRD; TUNA FISHERY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

MACRONECTES; PROCELLARIA; PROCELLARIIDAE; PTERODROMA; SCOMBRIDAE; XIPHIAS GLADIUS;

EID: 84857443049     PISSN: 0308597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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