A risk-based approach to rapidly screen vulnerability of cetaceans to impacts from fisheries bycatch

Biological Conservation

Volumn 168, Issue , 2013, Pages 78-87

  Brown, Susie L ^a   Reid, David ^b   Rogan, Emer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bycatch; Gillnets; Productivity Susceptibility Analysis; Selectivity; Trawls

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BYCATCH; CETACEAN; DATA SET; DEMERSAL FISH; FISHING GEAR; GILLNET; MONITORING; PELAGIC FISH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITIZATION; RISK FACTOR; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); TRAWLING; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84885926839     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.09.019     Document Type: Article

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