Developing and evaluating a size-structured stock assessment model for the American lobster, Homarus americanus, fishery

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 645-660

  Chen, Yong ^a   Kanaiwa, Minoru ^a   Wilson, Carl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b MAINE DEPARTMENT OF MARINE RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Biased error; Gulf of Maine; Homarus americanus; Simulation; Size structured model

Indexed keywords

LOBSTER FISHERY; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

HOMARUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 22944463778     PISSN: 00288330     EISSN: 11758805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2005.9517342     Document Type: Article

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