Some interactions between coastal fisheries and sea birds in the Aegean Sea

Autor: Okan Akyol, Tevfik Ceyhan
Přispěvatelé: Ege Üniversitesi
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Ege Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 37:139-147
ISSN: 2148-3140
1300-1590
DOI: 10.12714/egejfas.37.2.04
Popis: In this study, it is aimed to determine the some interactions between various fishery types and seabirds, results of this interaction and sea bird species that have been interacting due to secondary attraction factors. A total of 80 fishermen, working in fish farms, small scale fishery (SSF) and lagoons located in Izmir, Aydın and Muğla were face-to-face interviewed between September 2016 and December 2018. The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis), great white egret (Ardea alba), some yelkouan shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan) and great white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) are the bird species that have an interaction with coastal fishermen and sea-cage fish farms. 82% of employees in sea-cage fish farms mentioned that they have an interaction with sea birds in winter, besides %50 of SSF have an interaction with sea birds in summer. The difference between interaction rate according to seasons has been found as statistically significant (p
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