Beyond Post-release Mortality: Inferences on Recovery Periods and Natural Mortality From Electronic Tagging Data for Discarded Lamnid Sharks

Accurately characterizing the biology of a pelagic shark species is critical when assessing its status and resilience to fishing pressure. Natural mortality (M) is well known to be a key parameter determining productivity and resilience, but also one for which estimates are most uncertain. While M c...

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Main Authors: Heather D. Bowlby, Hugues P. Benoît, Warren Joyce, James Sulikowski, Rui Coelho, Andrés Domingo, Enric Cortés, Fabio Hazin, David Macias, Gérard Biais, Catarina Santos, Brooke Anderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.619190/full