Informing the vulnerability of species to spawning aggregation fishing using commercial catch data

Fisheries Research

Volumn 143, Issue , 2013, Pages 47-56

  Tobin, Andrew ^a   Currey, Leanne ^a   Simpfendorfer, Colin ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fishery management; Reef fish; Spawning aggregations; Temporal closure; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874435261     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2013.01.011     Document Type: Article

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