Looking behind the curtain: Quantifying massive shark mortality in fish aggregating devices

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 291-296

  Filmalter, John David ^a,b,c   Capello, Manuela ^d   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^d   Cowley, Paul Denfer ^b   Dagorn, Laurent ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BYCATCH; CATCH STATISTICS; FISHING GEAR; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; PERCIFORM; PURSE SEINING; SHARK; TAGGING;

INDIAN OCEAN;

CARCHARHINUS FALCIFORMIS; CHONDRICHTHYES; SCOMBRIDAE;

EID: 84881452208     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/130045     Document Type: Article

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