Conflict between Dolphins and a Data-Scarce Fishery of the European Union.
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SUBMITTER: Snape RTE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6015611 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Conflict between Dolphins and a Data-Scarce Fishery of the European Union.
Snape Robin Thomas Ernest RTE Broderick Annette Cameron AC Çiçek Burak Ali BA Fuller Wayne John WJ Tregenza Nicholas N Witt Matthew John MJ Godley Brendan John BJ
Human ecology: an interdisciplinary journal 20180327 3
Fisheries depredation by marine mammals is an economic concern worldwide. We combined questionnaires, acoustic monitoring, and participatory experiments to investigate the occurrence of bottlenose dolphins in the fisheries of Northern Cyprus, and the extent of their conflict with set-nets, an economically important metier of Mediterranean fisheries. Dolphins were present in fishing grounds throughout the year and were detected at 28% of sets. Net damage was on average six times greater where dol ...[more]
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