What makes fisheries data informative?

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 337-358

  Magnusson, Arni ^a,b   Hilborn, Ray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Abundance index; Catch at age; Informative data; Reference points; Stock assessment

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE INDEX; AGE AT RECRUITMENT; CATCH COMPOSITION; DATA MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; FISHERY MODELING; HARVESTING; MORTALITY; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 36248929939     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2007.00258.x     Document Type: Article

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