Matching catches to quotas in a multispecies trawl fishery: Targeting and avoidance behavior under individual transferable quotas

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1435-1446

  Branch, Trevor A ^a   Hilborn, Ray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; CATCH COMPOSITION; MORTALITY; OPTIMIZATION; TELEOST; TRAWLING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

SEBASTES ALEUTIANUS; SEBASTES BOREALIS; SEBASTES RUBERRIMUS;

EID: 46849093444     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F08-065     Document Type: Article

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