Distinguishing disease impacts from larval supply effects in a lobster fishery collapse

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 376, Issue , 2009, Pages 185-192

  Wahle, Richard A ^a   Gibson, Mark ^b   Fogarty, Michael ^c  

^a BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Rhode Island Division of Fish and Wildlife   (United States)

^c NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Homarus americanus; Larval supply; Open population; Recruitment; Shell disease; Stock assessment

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; FORECASTING METHOD; LARVA; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; LOBSTER; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); STOCK ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

HOMARUS AMERICANUS; INVERTEBRATA; LOBSTER;

EID: 62149138388     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07803     Document Type: Article

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