Open AccessBIODIVERSITY OF SHARKS AND RAYS IN SOUTH EASTERN INDONESIA
Author(s) -
Dharmadi Dharmadi,
Fahmi Fahmi,
William T. White
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indonesian fisheries research journal/indonesian fisheries research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2502-6569
pISSN - 0853-8980
DOI - 10.15578/ifrj.15.2.2009.17-28
Subject(s) - demersal zone , fishery , bycatch , fishing , biodiversity , fauna , geography , demersal fish , chondrichthyes , biology , ecology
Indonesia has a very diverse shark and ray fauna and is the largest chondrichthyan fisheries in the world. Most of the sharis are caught by longlines and gillnets and rays are caught both as target, e.g. in the tangle net and demersal gillnet fisheries, and as bycatch in other fisheries such as in demersal and drift gittnet, trammel net a-nd long line fisheries.