Effects of trawl sampling variability on precision of acoustic abundance estimates of gadoids from the Barents Sea and the Gulf of Alaska

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 86-94

  Godø, Olav Rune ^a   Karp, William A ^b   Totland, Atle ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic estimates; Gadoids; Resampling; Trawl sampling variability

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ACOUSTIC SURVEY; FISH; SAMPLING; TRAWL SURVEY;

BARENTS SEA; GULF OF ALASKA;

GADOIDAE;

EID: 0032007750     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmsc.1997.0255     Document Type: Article

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