Correlating trawl and acoustic data in the eastern Bering Sea: A first step toward improving biomass estimates of walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) and Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus)?

Fisheries Research

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-83

  von Szalay, Paul G ^a   Somerton, David A ^a   Kotwicki, Stan ^a  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic data; Bottom trawls; Capture efficiency; Catch per unit effort; NASC values; Relative abundance estimates; Trawl surveys

Indexed keywords

GADUS MACROCEPHALUS; POLLACHIUS; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 34250824006     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2007.05.005     Document Type: Article

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