Old Info for a New Fisheries Policy: Discard Ratios and Lengths at Discarding in EU Mediterranean Bottom Trawl Fisheries
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Citation: Tsagarakis K, Carbonell A, Brčić J, Bellido JM, Carbonara P, Casciaro L, Edridge A, García T, González M, Krstulović Šifner S, Machias A, Notti E, Papantoniou G, Sala A, Škeljo F, Vitale S and Vassilopoulou V (2017) Old Info for a New Fisheries Policy: Discard Ratios and Lengths at Discarding in EU Mediterranean Bottom Trawl Fisheries. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:99. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00099 Old Info for a New Fisheries Policy: Discard Ratios and Lengths at Discarding in EU Mediterranean Bottom Trawl Fisheries
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