Effects of small (13/0) circle hooks on loggerhead sea turtle bycatch in a smallscale, italian pelagic longline fishery

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 719-730

  Cambiè, Giulia ^a,b,c   Muiño, Ramón ^a   Freire, Juan ^a   Mingozzi, Toni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; BYCATCH; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; CATCH STATISTICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FISHERY ECONOMICS; FISHING GEAR; FISHING VESSEL; LOGGING (GEOPHYSICS); PELAGIC FISHERY; PERCIFORM; TURTLE;

ITALY;

CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES; THUNNUS THYNNUS;

EID: 84864780700     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: 15536955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5343/bms.2011.1041     Document Type: Article

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