The advantage of explicitly incorporating predation mortality into age-structured stock assessment models: An application for Atlantic mackerel

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 445-454

  Moustahfid, H ^a   Link, J S ^a   Overholtz, W J ^a   Tyrrell, M C ^a  

^a NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Age structure; Assessment model; Biological reference points; Georges Bank; Gulf of Maine; Predation mortality; Scomber scombrus

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; FISH; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDATION; STOCK ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); GEORGES BANK; GULF OF MAINE;

SCOMBER SCOMBRUS;

EID: 64949181534     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsn217     Document Type: Article

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