A geostatistical method for assessing biomass of tuna aggregations around moored fish aggregating devices with star acoustic surveys

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1193-1205

  Doray, Mathieu ^a,b   Petitgas, Pierre ^b   Josse, Erwan ^a  

^a IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURVEY; ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BIOMASS; FISH AGGREGATING DEVICE; FISHERY MODELING; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; MOORING SYSTEM; OPTIMIZATION; PERCIFORM; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; MARTINIQUE; WINDWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES];

ANIMALIA; SCOMBRIDAE;

EID: 44349190300     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F08-050     Document Type: Article

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