A revised Alverson and Carney model for estimating the instantaneous rate of natural mortality

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 620-633

  Zhang, Chang Ik ^a   Megrey, Bernard A ^b  

^a Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^b ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; DEMERSAL FISH; MORTALITY; PELAGIC FISH; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCK ASSESSMENT; VON BERTALANFFY EQUATION;

EID: 33845681616     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T04-173.1     Document Type: Article

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