An ecosystem approach for assessment advice and biological reference points for the Gulf of Maine-Georges Bank Atlantic herring complex

North American Journal of Fisheries Management

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 247-257

  Overholtz, W J ^a   Jacobson, L D ^a   Link, J S ^a  

^a NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; TELEOST;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GEORGES BANK; GULF OF MAINE;

CLUPEA HARENGUS; MAMMALIA; PISCES;

EID: 42049112335     PISSN: 02755947     EISSN: 15488675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/M06-267.1     Document Type: Article

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