Discards of the purse seine fishery targeting small pelagic fish in the eastern Mediterranean Sea

Scientia Marina

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 561-572

  Tsagarakis, Konstantinos ^a   Vassilopoulou, Vassiliki ^a   Kallianiotis, Argyris ^b   Machias, Athanassios ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b Fisheries Research Institute   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Commercial species; Ionian sea; Lengths at discarding; Purse seine fishery; Small pelagic fish

Indexed keywords

CATCH COMPOSITION; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; DATA SET; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; JUVENILE; MARKET SYSTEM; PELAGIC FISH; PERCIFORM; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); WEIGHT;

FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SEINE BASIN;

BOOPS BOOPS; ENGRAULIDAE; ENGRAULIS ENCRASICOLUS; SARDINA PILCHARDUS; SARDINELLA AURITA; SCOMBER JAPONICUS; SPICARA SMARIS;

EID: 84870373607     PISSN: 02148358     EISSN: 18868134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3989/scimar.03452.02B     Document Type: Article

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