INVESTIGATION OF BYCATCH AND THE ECOLOGY OF SHARKS IN THE

Commercial fisheries in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea often interact with non-targeted species, especially long lived, slow growing, low fecund species such as sharks. This project investigates the demography and trophic ecology of salmon sharks and Pacific sleeper sharks caught as bycatch...

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Main Authors: Vincent Gallucci, Robert Foy, Bering Sea
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Language:English
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.579.3923
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Summary:Commercial fisheries in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea often interact with non-targeted species, especially long lived, slow growing, low fecund species such as sharks. This project investigates the demography and trophic ecology of salmon sharks and Pacific sleeper sharks caught as bycatch in Bering Sea pollock fisheries. Salmon sharks and Pacific sleeper