Catch, bycatch, and indices of population status of blue shark (Prionace glauca

The nominal catch of blue sharks in the Canadian Atlantic grossly underestimates the actual catch mortality; the sum of landed catch and by-catch mortality in the Canadian Atlantic has averaged about 1000 t annually since 1986. Several indices of population health suggest that blue shark abundance h...

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Main Author: Steven E. Campana
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2004
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.622.1120
http://nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/Narragansett/sharks/refpdfs/Campana et al 2005.pdf