Patterns of population variability in marine fish stocks

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 188-204

  Spencer, Paul D ^a,b   Collie, Jeremy S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Fisheries management; Regime shifts; Variability patterns

Indexed keywords

EXPLOITED STOCKS; FISH STOCK; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; LIFE HISTORY; POPULATION VARIABILITY; POPULATION VARIATION;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030775653     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.1997.00039.x     Document Type: Article

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