Ignoring discards biases the assessment of fisheries' ecological fingerprint

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Viana, Mafalda ^a,b   McNally, Luke ^a,b   Graham, Norman ^c   Reid, David G ^c   Jackson, Andrew L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Catch; Discards; Landings; Marine conservation

Indexed keywords

CATCH STATISTICS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISHERY MANAGEMENT;

IRELAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CATCH; DISCARDS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; FISHERY; IRELAND; LANDINGS; MARINE CONSERVATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; CATCH; DISCARDS; LANDINGS; MARINE CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHERIES; FISHES; IRELAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84891956153     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0812     Document Type: Article

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