School-based indicators of tuna population status

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 612-622

  Dell, James T ^a   Hobday, Alistair J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Population monitoring; Population trends; Schooling behaviour; Size based index; Southern bluefin tuna; Thunnus maccoyii

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; MONITORING; PERCIFORM; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; REAL TIME; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOR;

SCOMBRIDAE; THUNNUS MACCOYII;

EID: 44649189107     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsn032     Document Type: Article

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