Slack regulation compliance in the Mediterranean fisheries: A paradigm from the Greek Aegean Sea demersal trawl fishery, Modelling discard ogives

Fisheries Management and Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-33

  Damalas, D ^a,b   Vassilopoulou, V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Control; Demersal; Enforcement; GAM; Minimum catch size

Indexed keywords

CATCH STATISTICS; DEMERSAL FISHERY; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY POLICY; LAW ENFORCEMENT; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; TRAWLING;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PARAPENAEUS LONGIROSTRIS; PARAPENAEUS POLITUS;

EID: 84872510780     PISSN: 0969997X     EISSN: 13652400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2400.2012.00860.x     Document Type: Article

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