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Interactions between cetaceans and gillnet and trap fisheries in the Northwest Atlantic

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Read, AJ
Published in: Gillnets and cetaceans
January 1, 1994

Ten major categories of passive fisheries are identified, five of which take substantial numbers of cetaceans during the course of their operations: Atlantic Canada and Gulf of Maine groundfish gillnets; Atlantic Canada cod traps; Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine herring weirs; Atlantic Canada and Greenland salmon gillnets; and US east coast swordfish driftnets. The cetacean species most threatened by incidental mortality in commercial fisheries in this region are harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena, which is taken in large numbers and the endangered northern right whale Eubalaena glacialis. -from Author

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Gillnets and cetaceans

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January 1, 1994

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133 / 147
 

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Read, A. J. “Interactions between cetaceans and gillnet and trap fisheries in the Northwest Atlantic.” Gillnets and Cetaceans, January 1, 1994, 133–47.
Read, A. J. “Interactions between cetaceans and gillnet and trap fisheries in the Northwest Atlantic.” Gillnets and Cetaceans, Jan. 1994, pp. 133–47.

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Gillnets and cetaceans

Publication Date

January 1, 1994

Start / End Page

133 / 147