The sampling volume of trawl and acoustics: estimating availability probabilities from observations of tracked individual fish

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 425-438

  Handegard, Nils Olav ^a   Tjøstheim, Dag ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACOUSTIC METHOD; BOTTOM TRAWLING; ECHO SOUNDER; FISHERY SURVEY; FISHING; FOOD ORGANISM; GADOID; MODELING; SWIMMING; TRAWLING; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

GADUS MORHUA; MELANOGRAMMUS; MELANOGRAMMUS AEGLEFINUS;

EID: 65249103545     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F09-004     Document Type: Article

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