Stock Structure of the Blue Shark (Prionace Glauca) in the North Atlantic Ocean Based on Tagging Data

Sharks of the Open Ocean: Biology, Fisheries and Conservation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 339-350

  Kohler, Nancy E ^a   Turner, Patricia A ^a  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue shark; Migration; Movements; North atlantic; Recapture; Stock structure; Tagging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947771603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444302516.ch30     Document Type: Chapter

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