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Department of Oceanography
Seasonal and lunar trends in catch rates of sharks caught in the protective gill nets off KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Abstract
dc:description.abstractA retrospective statistical analysis of catch and effort data for sharks captured in protective gill nets along the KwaZulu-Natal coastline was carried out with the objective to establish if the frequency of shark catches is related to different phases of the moon and secondly to season.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher.institution
- Department of Oceanography
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2006
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Lundemo, Ola Andreas
- Advisors dc:contributor.advisor
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- Govender, Anesh
- Griffiths, Charles L
- Wintner, Sabine
Rights
- Language dc:language.iso
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11313
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11313