Fishermen's perception on the sustainability of small-scale fisheries and dolphin-fisheries interactions in two increasingly fragile coastal ecosystems in western Greece

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 91-106

  Gonzalvo, Joan ^a   Giovos, Ioannis ^a   Moutopoulos, Dimitrios K ^b  

^a Tethys Research Institute and IUCN Task Force on Marine Mammal Protected Areas   (Italy)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Archipelago; Coastal; Ecosystem approach; Fish; Fishing; Mammals; Pollution; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CHELONIIDAE; MAMMALIA; MONACHUS;

EID: 84923009122     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.2444     Document Type: Article

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