Electrotrawling: A promising alternative fishing technique warranting further exploration

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 104-124

  Soetaert, Maarten ^a,b   Decostere, Annemie ^a   Polet, Hans ^b   Verschueren, Bart ^b   Chiers, Koen ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Discard reduction; Electrofishing; Impact; North Sea; Pulse trawling; Seabed disturbance

Indexed keywords

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PLEURONECTIFORMES;

EID: 84923090937     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/faf.12047     Document Type: Article

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