The last frontier: Catch records of white sharks (carcharodon carcharias) in the northwest pacific ocean

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Christiansen, Heather M ^a   Lin, Victor ^b   Tanaka, Sho ^c   Velikanov, Anatoly ^d   Mollet, Henry F ^e,f   Wintner, Sabine P ^g,h   Fordham, Sonja V ⁱ   Fisk, Aaron T ^a   Hussey, Nigel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b Independent Researcher   (Taiwan)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Sakhalin Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography   (Russian Federation)

^e MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^f MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM   (United States)

^g Natal Sharks Board   (South Africa)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

ⁱ Shark Advocates International A Project of Ocean Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CARCHARODON CARCHARIAS; CATCH RECORD; CHINA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; GESTATION PERIOD; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KOREA; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINES; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHARK; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TAIWAN; VIET NAM; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISHERY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FISHERIES; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SHARKS;

EID: 84899709199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094407     Document Type: Article

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