Survey- and fishery-derived estimates of Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) biomass: Implications for strategies to reduce interactions between groundfish fisheries and Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus)

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 501-515

  Fritz, Lowell W ^a   Brown, Eric S ^b  

^a NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^b NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BOTTOM TRAWLING; FISHERY SURVEY; PINNIPED; POPULATION ESTIMATION;

EUMETOPIAS JUBATUS; GADUS MACROCEPHALUS; OTARIIDAE;

EID: 28244451363     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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