Modeling fish numbers dynamically by age and length: Partitioning cohorts into "slices"

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1157-1173

  McGarvey, Richard ^a   Feenstra, John E ^a   Ye, Q ^a  

^a SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; SIZE STRUCTURE; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 35948929425     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F07-080     Document Type: Article

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