New insights to behaviour of North Atlantic albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) observed with pop-up satellite archival tags

Fisheries Research

Volumn 150, Issue , 2014, Pages 89-99

  Cosgrove, Ronan ^a   Arregui, Igor ^b   Arrizabalaga, Haritz ^b   Goni, Nicolas ^b   Sheridan, Michael ^c  

^a Irish Sea Fisheries Board ^*  (Ireland)

^b MARINE RESEARCH DIVISION   (Spain)

^c Atlantic Technological University   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Environmental variables; Habitat use; Horizontal movements; Vertical

Indexed keywords

SCOMBRIDAE; THUNNUS ALALUNGA;

EID: 84888440981     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2013.10.013     Document Type: Article

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