The Status of Australia's Rock Lobster Fisheries

Spiny Lobsters: Fisheries and Culture: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 43-77

  Phillips, B F ^a   Chubb, C F ^b   Melville Smith, R ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b WESTERN AUSTRALIAN FISHERIES AND MARINE RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Fishery; Jasus; Lobsters; Panulirus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948963506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470698808.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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