Geostatistical simulations of eastern Bering Sea walleye pollock spatial distributions, to estimate sampling precision

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 559-569

  Walline, Paul D ^a  

^a NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Geostatistical simulation; Hydroacoustic survey precision; Walleye pollock

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ACOUSTIC DATA; BIOMASS; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; GADOID; GEOSTATISTICS; ISOTROPY; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VARIOGRAM;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 34447530325     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsl045     Document Type: Article

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