Biased stock assessment when using multiple, hardly overlapping, tuning series if fishing trends vary spatially

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2272-2277

  Kraak, Sarah B M ^a   Daan, Niels ^b   Pastoors, Martin A ^c  

^a MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

^b Wageningen IMARES ^*  (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

North Sea plaice; Simulation; Spatial effort variation; Statistical catch at age; Stock assessment performance; Tuning indices; XSA

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FISHING EFFORT; FISHING MORTALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPAWNING; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

PLEURONECTES;

EID: 70450210928     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsp179     Document Type: Article

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