Discards of the purse seine fishery targeting small pelagic fish in the eastern Mediterranean Sea

We analysed data collected on board commercial purse seine vessels in the Aegean and Ionian Seas (eastern Mediterranean Sea, Greece) in 13 seasonal sampling periods from 2003 to 2008 in order to describe the composition of the retained and discarded catch and shed light on discarding practices. In e...

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Main Authors: Konstantinos Tsagarakis, Vassiliki Vassilopoulou, Argyris Kallianiotis, Athanassios Machias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2012-09-01
Series:Scientia Marina
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Online Access:http://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/view/1361