No-trawl area impacts: Perceptions, compliance and fish abundances

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 237-247

  Bloomfield, H J ^a,b   Sweeting, C J ^a   Mill, A C ^a   Stead, S M ^a   Polunin, N V C ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

compliance; fisheries; marine protected areas; mobile species; multidisciplinary; social

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANCE; MARINE PROTECTED AREA; MOBILE SPECIES; MULTIDISCIPLINARY; SOCIAL;

ECOLOGY; FISH; NOBELIUM;

FISHERIES;

ABUNDANCE; ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; COMPLIANCE; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING COMMUNITY; FISHING EFFORT; FISHING GEAR; MARINE PARK; MARINE POLICY; MOBILITY; PERCEPTION; STOCK ASSESSMENT; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TRAP (EQUIPMENT);

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84865523813     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892912000112     Document Type: Article

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