Variation in the abundance of sandeels Ammodytes marinus off southeast Scotland: an evaluation of area-closure fisheries management and stock abundance assessment methods

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1530-1550

  Greenstreet, Simon P R ^a   Armstrong, Eric ^a   Mosegaard, Henrik ^b   Jensen, Henrik ^b   Gibb, Iain M ^a   Fraser, Helen M ^a   Scott, Beth E ^d   Holland, Gayle J ^a   Sharples, Jonathan ^c  

^a MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fishery closure effects; fishery dependent assessment; fishery independent assessment; local stock biomass assessment; sandeel behaviour modelling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACOUSTIC DATA; FISH; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; SEABIRD; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCK ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES; TRAWLING; WATER COLUMN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AMMODYTES MARINUS;

EID: 33748284666     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icesjms.2006.05.009     Document Type: Article

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