The Norwegian minke whale DNA register: A data base monitoring commercial harvest and trade of whale products

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 313-332

  Glover, Kevin A ^a   Haug, Tore ^a   Øien, Nils ^a   Walløe, Lars ^b   Lindblom, Lotta ^a   Seliussen, Bjørghild B ^a   Skaug, Hans J ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

CITES; Data base; Fisheries genetics; Forensic; IWC; Whales; Wildlife register

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM; DATABASE; EXPLOITATION; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; LOGISTICS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NATURAL RESOURCE; PROBABILITY; STOCK ASSESSMENT; TEMPORAL PERIOD; WHALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

BALAENOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA; CETACEA;

EID: 84859878091     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2011.00447.x     Document Type: Article

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