Using multi-species surplus production models to estimate ecosystem-level maximum sustainable yields

Fisheries Research

Volumn 81, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 189-201

  Mueter, Franz J ^a   Megrey, Bernard A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bering Sea; Ecosystem based fisheries management; Graham Schaefer model; Gulf of Alaska; Pella Tomlinson model; Productivity

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CATCH STATISTICS; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; FISHERY MODELING; FISHERY PRODUCTION; MULTISPECIES FISHERY; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; BERING SEA; GULF OF ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748894028     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2006.07.010     Document Type: Article

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