Calibration of pelagic stereo-BRUVs and scientific longline surveys for sampling sharks

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 824-833

  Santana Garcon, Julia ^a   Braccini, Matias ^b   Langlois, Tim J ^a,b   Newman, Stephen J ^b,c   Mcauley, Rory B ^b   Harvey, Euan S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Baited remote underwater video; Behaviour; Carcharhinidae; Effort equivalence; Fishery independent; Gear selectivity; Marine ecology; Method comparison; Mid water; Pelagic fish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904725529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12216     Document Type: Article

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