Estimating larval fish growth under size-dependent mortality: A numerical analysis of bias

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 554-562

  Tian, Tian ^a,b   Fiksen, Øyvind ^a   Folkvord, Arild ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; FISH; GROWTH RATE; LARVA; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL METHOD; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION GROWTH; RECRUITMENT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 34347218591     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F07-031     Document Type: Article

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