Advances in fishing power: A study spanning 50 years

Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 112-121

  Damalas, Dimitrios ^a,b   Maravelias, Christos D ^a   Kavadas, Stefanos ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Demersal; Fishing effort; Generalized additive model; Technological creep

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903528061     PISSN: 23308249     EISSN: 23308257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10641262.2013.839620     Document Type: Article

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