Subtleties in, and practical problems with, the use of production models in fish stock assessment

Fisheries Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 17-36

  Xiao, Yongshun ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age dependent production model; Fish stock assessment; Instantaneous fishing mortality; Maximum entropy estimation

Indexed keywords

AGE DEPENDENCE; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; CATCH/EFFORT; MODELLING; PRODUCTION MODEL; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0031416489     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(97)00065-9     Document Type: Article

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