Environmental effects on forage and longline fishery performance for albacore (Thunnus alalunga) in the American samoa exclusive economic zone

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 419-438

  Domokos, Réka ^a  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active acoustics; Albacore tuna; American Samoa Exclusive Economic Zone; Anticyclonic eddies; Catch per unit effort; Convergence; Deep scattering layer; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Longline fishery; Mesoscale eddy; Micronekton distribution

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONE; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONVERGENCE; COUNTERCURRENT; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FISHERY PRODUCTION; FORAGE; LONGLINING; MESOSCALE EDDY; MICRONEKTON; OSCILLATING FLOW; PELAGIC FISH; PHYTOMASS; SHEAR; TUNA FISHERY; UPWELLING;

AMERICAN SAMOA; ASIA; EURASIA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; NEW GUINEA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

SCOMBRIDAE; THUNNUS ALALUNGA;

EID: 70349918192     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2009.00521.x     Document Type: Article

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