Stock assessment of protogynous fish: Evaluating measures of spawning biomass used to estimate biological reference points

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 12-23

  Brooks, Elizabeth N ^a,b   Shertzer, Kyle W ^c   Gedamke, Todd ^d   Vaughan, Douglas S ^c  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

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