A von bertalanffy growth model for toothfish at Heard Island fitted to length-at-age data and compared to observed growth from mark-recapture studies

CCAMLR Science

Volumn 14, Issue , 2007, Pages 43-66

  Candy, S G ^a   Constable, A J ^a   Lamb, T ^a   Williams, R ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

CCAMLR; Fabens model; Maximum likelihood; Response biased sampling; Variable probability sampling; Young age adjustment

Indexed keywords

DISSOSTICHUS ELEGINOIDES;

EID: 36248962192     PISSN: 10234063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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