Environmental effects on swordfish and blue shark catch rates in the US North Pacific longline fishery

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 178-198

  Bigelow, Keith A ^a,d   Boggs, Christofer H ^b   He, Xi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d SPC   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

Blue shark; Fishery oceanography; Generalized additive models; Longline fishery; North Pacific; Remote sensing; Swordfish

Indexed keywords

CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISHERY MODELING; LONGLINING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

PRIONACE GLAUCA; XIPHIAS GLADIUS;

EID: 0032799840     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.1999.00105.x     Document Type: Article

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