Habitat Mapping Of Blue Shark In The Eastern Mediterranean Sea: Application Of Generalized Additive Models On Commercial Fishery By-Catch

Blue sharks (Prionace glauca, Linnaeus 1758), are repeatedly caught in the surface drifting longline fisheries throughout the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Based on a dataset derived from the Greek and Cypriot commercial fisheries, targeting swordfish during 1998-2005, we applied an information theoretic generalized additive model approach, modeling separately: (1) the probability of making a catch and (2) the positive catch rates. Analyses suggested... (+++)

DAMALAS Dimitrios;  MEGALOFONOU Persefoni; 

2013-01-21

HCMR

JRC69588

978-960-98054-9-0,   

1107-6534,   

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC69588,