El Niño effects in the Palmyra Atoll region: Oceanographic changes and bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) catch rate variability

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 477-489

  Howell, Evan A ^a   Kobayashi, Donald R ^a,b  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bigeye tuna; El Ni o; Empirical orthogonal function; Fishery oceanography; Generalized additive model; Palmyra Atoll

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATOLL; CATCH STATISTICS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TUNA FISHERY;

LINE ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PALMYRA ATOLL;

PALMYRA; SCOMBRIDAE GEN. SP.; THUNNUS OBESUS;

EID: 33749451171     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2005.00397.x     Document Type: Article

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