Low use of required terrapin bycatch reduction devices in a recreational crab pot fishery

Herpetological Conservation and Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 222-227

  Radzio, Thomas A ^a   Smolinsk, Jaclyn A ^b   Roosenburg, Willem M ^c  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue Crab; Bycatch reduction device; Cauinectes sapidus; Crab pot; Diamondback Terrapin; Fisheries management; Malaclemys terrapin; Mortality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885134521     PISSN: 21510733     EISSN: 19317603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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