| TITLE: |
North Atlantic sharks relevant to fisheries management : a pocket guide / [author, Dave Ebert]. |
| AUTHOR: |
Ebert, David A., author. |
| PUBLISHED: |
Rome : FAO, 2012. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
88 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 15 x 16 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
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Cover title. |
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"FAO Fish Finder." |
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Text runs parallel with the spine. |
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CD-ROM has copyright 2013. |
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Accompanying CD ROM has title: Sharks, batoids and chimaeras of the North Atlantic |
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by David A. Ebert and Matthias F.W. Stehmann. |
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"This pocket guide presents a fully illustrated identification guide to a selection of shark species of the |
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North Atlantic, encompassing FAO Fishing Areas 21 and 27. It includes 38 species selected as being most relevant to commercial fisheries, vulnerable to exploitation due |
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to their life history characteristics, or taken in large numbers as discarded bycatch. Information under each species account includes FAO common names, local names, scientific names, FAO 3 alpha code, a color illustration of the species lateral view (and often anatomical details), main field markings |
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and diagnostic features, and size and main distinctive characters of similar species occurring in the area.The guide also includes a photograph of the species, and information on fisheries, fishing methods, EU, non-EU and RFMO regulations in force in 2012, geographic distribution, conservation status, whether the species is |
| NOTES: |
prohibited, if the fins are marketed, zones of occurrence and maximum depth of commonly caught specimens. |
| SUBJECT: |
Sharks--North Atlantic Ocean--Identification. |
| SUBJECT: |
Sharks. |
| SUBJECT: |
North Atlantic Ocean. |
| ADDED ENTRY: |
Stehmann, Matthias, 1943- |
| ADDED ENTRY: |
FAO FishFinder (Programme). |
| ADDED ENTRY: |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. |
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