Spatial Heterogeneity in Fishing Creates de facto Refugia for Endangered Celtic Sea Elasmobranchs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Shephard, Samuel ^a,b   Gerritsen, Hans ^c   Kaiser, Michel J ^d   Reid, David G ^c  

^a Atlantic Technological University   (Ireland)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DEMERSAL FISH; ELASMOBRANCH; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISHERY; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING; GEOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; SEA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ELASMOBRANCHII; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISHERIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

DIPTURUS; ELASMOBRANCHII;

EID: 84869124437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049307     Document Type: Article

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