Evidence of underestimation of European hake growth in the Bay of Biscay, and its relationship with bias in the agreed method of age estimation

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1674-1681

  de Pontual, Hélène ^a   Groison, Anne Laure ^b   Piñeiro, Carmen ^c   Bertignac, Michel ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b Laboratoire de Sclérochronologie des Animaux Aquatiques   (France)

^c Instituto Español de Oceanografía   (Spain)

Author keywords

age; age estimation method; age validation; European hake; growth; Merluccius merluccius; otolith; tagging

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FISH; GROWTH RATE; OTOLITH; TAGGING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BISCAY;

MERLUCCIUS MERLUCCIUS; REXEA SOLANDRI;

EID: 33750610870     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icesjms.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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