Impacts of density-dependent growth and maturation on assessment advice to rebuild depleted U.S. silver hake (Merluccius bilinearis) stocks

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 882-892

  Helser, Thomas E ^a,c   Brodziak, Jon K T ^b  

^a NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^c Fisheries Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; MODELING; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

UNITED STATES;

MERLUCCIUS BILINEARIS;

EID: 0031846192     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f97-290     Document Type: Article

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