Predicting skipjack tuna forage distributions in the equatorial Pacific using a coupled dynamical bio-geochemical model

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 317-325

  Lehodey, Patrick ^a   Andre, Jean Michel ^b   Bertignac, Michel ^a   Hampton, John ^a   Stoens, Anne ^c   Menkes, Christophe ^c   Memery, Laurent ^c   Grima, Nicolas ^c  

^a ORSTOM ^*  (New Caledonia)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Advection; Convergence; Coupled models; Equatorial upwelling; Katsuwonus pelamis; Pacific; Secondary production; Skipjack; Tuna; Warmpool

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MODELING; PREDICTION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

KATSUWONUS PELAMIS;

EID: 0032438936     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.1998.00063.x     Document Type: Article

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