Factors influencing mortality estimates in post-release survival studies

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Musyl, Michael K., Moyes, Christopher D., Brill, Richard, Fragoso, Nuno M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: W&M ScholarWorks 2009
• Subjects: Pop-up satellite archival tag; PSAT; Hook type; Soak time; Bycatch handling trauma; Longline fishery; Fisheries Science Peer-Reviewed Articles; Marine Biology; Moyes; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/vimsarticles/137; https://scholarworks.wm.edu/context/vimsarticles/article/1136/viewcontent/m396p157.pdf

Campana et al. (2009; Mar Ecol Prog Ser 387:241-253) explored the survival Of blue sharks Prionace glauca captured and released from the North Atlantic commercial longline fishery. We think that their comments and comparisons do not accurately reflect a previous survival study of blue sharks in Hawa...