Artificial habitats for fisheries enhancements in the Australian region.

From: Marine Fisheries Review | Date: September 22, 1989| Author: Pollard, D. A. | Copyright information

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Introduction

Interest in the construction of artificial reefs in Australia was initially stimulated by the work of Randall (1963) in the Virgin Islands and Carlisle et al. (1964) and later Turner et al. (1969) in California, as well as the early reviews of American and worldwide developments in this field by Stroud and Jenkins (1961), Stroud and Massmann (1966), Unger (1966), and Oren (1968). This interest resulted in the construction, using waste concre...

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