How systematic age underestimation can impede understanding of fish population dynamics: Lessons learned from a Lake Superior cisco stock

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 481-495

  Yule, Daniel L ^a   Stockwell, Jason D ^a   Black, Jeff A ^b   Cullis, Ken I ^b   Cholwek, Gary A ^a   Myers, Jared T ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FISHERY SURVEY; GILLNET; HARVESTING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORTALITY; OTOLITH; OVERFISHING; POPULATION ESTIMATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SALMONID; SURVIVORSHIP;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE SUPERIOR; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; THUNDER BAY;

COREGONUS ARTEDI;

EID: 43449092555     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T07-068.1     Document Type: Article

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