Taking account of dependent species in management of the Southern Ocean krill fishery: Estimating crabeater seal abundance off east Antarctica

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 622-631

  Southwell, Colin ^a   Paxton, Charles G M ^b   Borchers, David ^b   Boveng, Peter ^c   De La Mare, William ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aerial survey; Dependent species; Double observer; Krill harvest management; Line transect; Model based inference; Shipboard survey

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AERIAL SURVEY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CRUSTACEAN; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISHERY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE RESOURCE; MODEL; PINNIPED; REMOTE SENSING;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIACEA; LOBODON CARCINOPHAGA; LOBODON CARCINOPHAGUS;

EID: 40949121114     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01399.x     Document Type: Article

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