Mosquito Net Use in an Artisanal East African Fishery

Conservation Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 450-458

  Bush, Emma R ^a,b   Short, Rebecca E ^b,c   Milner Gulland, E J ^b,d   Lennox, Kirao ^e   Samoilys, Melita ^f   Hill, Nicholas ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e A Rocha Kenya   (Kenya)

^f CORDIO East Africa ^*  (Kenya)

^g ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artisanal fishing; juvenile fish; Kenya; livelihoods; malaria; mosquito net; overfishing; selectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992159537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12286     Document Type: Letter

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