Salmon farm impacts on muddy-sediment megabenthic assemblages on the west coast of Scotland

Aquaculture Environment Interactions

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 145-156

  Wilding, Thomas A ^a   Cromey, Chris J ^a   Nickell, Thom D ^a   Hughes, David J ^a  

^a SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DEPOMOD; Megabenthos; Regulation; Salmon farming; Scotland; Video survey

Indexed keywords

CREEDIIDAE;

EID: 84857723365     PISSN: 1869215X     EISSN: 18697534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/aei00038     Document Type: Article

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