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Environmental preferences of Billfish in Bay of Bengal: A case study in longl...
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Billfish are an important by-catch species in in the tuna fishery of Sri Lanka. The gillnet and longline, which are frequently used in Sri Lankan Tuna fishery mainly contribute for capturing the billfish too. The present study was undertaken to study the relative influence of three environmental parameters (sea surface temperature (SST), sea surface chlorophyll (SSC) and dynamic height of the sea surface (SSH)) on the billfish catch rates. The fisheries data in longline fishery of Sri Lank...

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Keywords
Fin Fish , Resource Survey , Billfish
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Resources Survey
environmental resources, protection and conservation. Examples: environmental pollution, waste storage and treatment, environmental impact assessment, monitoring environmental risk, nature reserves, landscape
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C ! , C 2 , C3 , C 4 , C 5 , JS 1 , JS 2 , JS 3 , JS 4 , JS 5 , JS 6 , M 1 , M 2 , M 3 , M 4 , M 5 , M 6 , M 7 , M 8 , M 9
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Rathnasuriya M.I.G. , Gunasekara, S.S. , Haputhanthri S.S.K. and Rajapaksha J.K. 2016. Environmental preferences of Billfish in Bay of Bengal: A case study ...

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