Can the precision of bottom trawl indices be increased by using simultaneously collected acoustic data? The Barents Sea experience

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1390-1402

  Hjellvik, Vidar ^a   Tjøstheim, Dag ^b   Godø, Olav Rune ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATA; AUTOCORRELATION; DEMERSAL FISH; TRAWLING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

EID: 36249005884     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F07-101     Document Type: Article

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