Harbour porpoise and people: strategies for bycatch reduction in the Bay of Fundy
Interactions between marine mammals and fisheries are recognized as a global problem. About 1.000- 2.000 harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) are caught annually in groundfish gillnets in the Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy. This bycatch is not sustainable and reduction of it is necessary. However, f...
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Memorial University of Newfoundland
1998
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| Online Access: | https://research.library.mun.ca/11340/ https://research.library.mun.ca/11340/1/Richter_Christopher.pdf |