Optimum sampling levels in discard sampling programs

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1918-1928

  Borges, Lisa ^a,c   Zuur, Alain F ^b   Rogan, Emer ^a   Officer, Rick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Highland Statistics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; FISHERY DISCARD; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; SAMPLING;

EID: 14644414246     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F04-138     Document Type: Article

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