Optimising methods for community-based sea cucumber ranching: Experimental releases of cultured juvenile Holothuria scabra into seagrass meadows in Papua New Guinea

Aquaculture Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2016, Pages 198-208

  Hair, Cathy ^a,b   Mills, David J ^b,c   McIntyre, Rowan ^b   Southgate, Paul C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c WORLDFISH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Biophysical variables; Holothuria scabra; Mariculture; Predator exclusion; Principal components analysis; Sea pens

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962467469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23525134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aqrep.2016.03.004     Document Type: Article

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