Ecosystem effects of fishing on the continental slope in the Central Mediterranean Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 449, Issue , 2012, Pages 41-54

  Dimech, Mark ^a,b,c   Kaiser, Michel J ^a   Ragonese, Sergio ^d   Schembri, Patrick J ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Malta Centre for Fisheries Science MCFS   (Malta)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Demersal resources; Fishing impacts; Mediterranean; Red shrimp; Strait of Sicily; Trawl surveys

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BIVALVE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEMERSAL FISH; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; FISHING EFFORT; GROWTH RATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MESH SIZE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; TRAWL NET;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; STRAIT OF SICILY;

ARISTAEOMORPHA FOLIACEA; CARNIVORA; DACTYLOPTERUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ETMOPTERUS SPINAX; FARFANTEPENAEUS AZTECUS; GALEUS MELASTOMUS; HELICOLENUS DACTYLOPTERUS; NEPHROPS NORVEGICUS; PLESIONIKA MARTIA;

EID: 84858123143     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09475     Document Type: Article

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