Evaluating the effect of predation mortality on forage species population dynamics in the Northeast US continental shelf ecosystem using multispecies virtual population analysis

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1689-1700

  Tyrrell, Megan C ^a   Link, Jason S ^a   Moustahfid, Hassan ^a   Overholtz, William J ^a  

^a NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic herring; Atlantic mackerel; Forage species; Multispecies virtual population analysis; Northwest Atlantic; Predation mortality; Recruitment; Stock assessment

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FISH; FORAGE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; SCOMBER SCOMBRUS;

EID: 57349096010     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsn185     Document Type: Article

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