Characteristics of the shark fisheries of Fiji

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Glaus, Kerstin B J ^a,e   Adrian Kalchhauser, Irene ^a   Burkhardt Holm, Patricia ^a,b   White, William T ^c   Brunnschweiler, Juerg M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d Independent Researcher   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BARCODING; FIJI; FISHERY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; SHARK; SPECIES; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; FIJI; FISHERIES; SHARKS;

EID: 84948843978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep17556     Document Type: Article

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