Where is fisheries science heading - how can fish stock assessments be improved?

Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science

Volumn 23, Issue , 1998, Pages 133-141

  Ulltang, Øyvind ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Assessment; Environment; Multispecies interactions; Stock predictions

Indexed keywords

FISHERY MANAGEMENT; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0032452999     PISSN: 02506408     EISSN: 18131859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2960/J.v23.a8     Document Type: Article

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