Fishery discards: Factors affecting their variability within a demersal trawl fishery

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Feekings, Jordan ^a   Bartolino, Valerio ^b,c   Madsen, Niels ^a   Catchpole, Tom ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMERSAL FISH; DENMARK; FISHERY DISCARD; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOBSTER; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRAWL FISHERY; ANIMAL; ATLANTIC COD; BODY WEIGHT; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ENVIRONMENT; FLOUNDER; FOOD INDUSTRY; HISTOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

NEPHROPS NORVEGICUS; PLEURONECTES;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ENVIRONMENT; FISHERIES; FLOUNDER; GADUS MORHUA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84860456592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036409     Document Type: Article

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