Measuring productivity and its components for fisheries: The case of the Alaskan pollock fishery, 1994-2003

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 105-136

  Felthoven, Ronald G ^a   Paul, Catherine J Morrison ^b   Torres, Marcelo ^b  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bycatch; Climate; Fisheries productivity; Primal production model; Regulatory impacts

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS;

BIOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE; BY-CATCH; CLIMATE; ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; FISHERY ECONOMICS; FISHERY PRODUCTIVITY; PRIMAL PRODUCTION MODEL; PRODUCTION MODELS; PRODUCTIVITY MEASURE; REGULATORY IMPACT;

FISHERIES;

POLLACHIUS; THERAGRA;

EID: 61549116165     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2008.00031.x     Document Type: Article

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