Study of swordfish fishing dynamics in the eastern Mediterranean by means of machine-learning approaches

Fisheries Research

Volumn 78, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 196-202

  Tserpes, George ^a   Moutopoulos, Dimitrios K ^b   Peristeraki, Panagiota ^a   Katselis, George ^c   Koutsikopoulos, Constantin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fishery; Machine learning; Mediterranean; Swordfish

Indexed keywords

CATCH STATISTICS; FISHERY SURVEY; FISHING GEAR; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LEARNING; RESOURCE USE; SAMPLING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

XIPHIAS GLADIUS;

EID: 33645976460     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2005.11.022     Document Type: Article

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