A new optimal allocation sampling design to improve estimates and precision levels of discards from two different Fishery Units of Spanish trawlers in northeast Atlantic waters (ICES subareas VIIc,j,k)

Boletin - Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia

Volumn 23, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 73-83

  Bellido, Jose Ma ^a   Pérez, Nelida ^b  

^a Instituto Español de Oceanografía   (Spain)

^b Instituto Español de Oceanografía   (Spain)

Author keywords

Discards; Fishery units; Hake; Megrim; Precision levels; Sampling design

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; FISHERY DISCARD; PRECISION; SAMPLING; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TRAWLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

LEPIDORHOMBUS WHIFFIAGONIS; REXEA SOLANDRI;

EID: 49549120187     PISSN: 00740195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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