Landings, logbooks and observer surveys: Improving the protocols for sampling commercial fisheries

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 123-152

  Cotter, A J R ^a   Pilling, G M ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discard proportion; Fishery observer survey; Logbook scheme; Sampling Approach and Modifications document; Sampling of landings; Sampling theory

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY SURVEY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SAMPLING;

EID: 34250189210     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2679.2007.00241.x     Document Type: Review

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