Measures to Reduce Interactions of Marine Megafauna with Fishing Operations

Behavior of Marine Fishes: Capture Processes and Conservation Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 315-342

  Rihan, Dominic ^a  

^a Irish Sea Fisheries Board ^*  (Ireland)

Author keywords

AIDCP program agreement on the international dolphin conservation program; AIDCP program and dolphin conservation in ETP; Bycatch species and fisheries involved dolphins and whales; Etp eastern tropical pacific ocean (ETP) purse seine tuna fishery; Marine megafauna interactions problem nature; Marine megafauna interactions with fishing operations; Megafauna bycatch extent total incidental marine megafauna catch in fisheries; Potential mitigation measures passive and active acoustic alarms; Regulatory frameworks reducing marine megafauna bycatch; Turtle excluder devices (TEDS) reducing turtle species mortality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857913223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813810966.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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