Swimming patterns of wild harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena show detection and avoidance of gillnets at very long ranges

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 453, Issue , 2012, Pages 241-248

  Nielsen, Torben P ^a   Wahlberg, Magnus ^b,c   Heikkilä, Sanja ^b   Jensen, Maria ^b   Sabinsky, Puk ^b   Dabelsteen, Torben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Fjord and Baelt   (Denmark)

Author keywords

By catch; Gillnet; Harbour porpoise; Phocoena phocoena; Swimming pattern

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BYCATCH; ECHOLOCATION; GILLNET; MITIGATION; PORPOISE; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PHOCOENIDAE;

EID: 84861028090     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09630     Document Type: Article

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