Fish Pots: Fish Behavior, Capture Processes, and Conservation Issues

Behavior of Marine Fishes: Capture Processes and Conservation Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 143-158

  Thomsen, Bjarti ^a   Humborstad, Odd Børre ^b   Furevik, Dag M ^b  

^a FAROE MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Faroe Islands)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Conservation challenges involved in pot operation and solutions; Fish behavior when approaching pot lateral line stimulation; Fish ingress egress behavior and pot entrance design; Fish pots, creels fish behavior and capture processes; Passive fishing gears pots and traps; Pot cover mesh size determining catch rates and fish size; Pots, desirable characteristics not labor intensive; Species specific fish behavior inside the pot; Worldwide use of fish pots Caribbean, antillean pot

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857916679     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813810966.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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