A strategy for developing scientific sampling tools for fishery-independent surveys of estuarine fish in New South Wales, Australia

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1512-1516

  Rotherham, D ^a   Underwood, A J ^b   Chapman, M G ^b   Gray, C A ^a  

^a NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Fishery independent survey; Pilot study; Spatial and temporal variation; Standardized sampling

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY SURVEY; HARVESTING; SAMPLING; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCK ASSESSMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 35948960428     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsm096     Document Type: Article

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