Missing the target: Uncertainties in achieving management goals in fisheries on Fraser River, British Columbia, sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2722-2733

  Holt, Carrie A ^a   Peterman, Randall M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY MODELING; FISHING MORTALITY; HARVESTING; RECRUITMENT; SALMONID FISHERY; UNCERTAINTY ROLE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; FRASER RIVER; NORTH AMERICA;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA;

EID: 33947102997     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F06-155     Document Type: Article

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