Using accessible watershed size to predict management parameters for Chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, populations with little or no spawner-recruit data: A Bayesian hierarchical modelling approach

Fisheries Management and Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 40-51

  Liermann, M C ^a   Sharma, R ^b   Parken, C K ^c  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Columbia River Inter Tribal Fish Commission ^*  (United States)

^c FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capacity; Fish habitat model; Hierarchical model; Life history; Maximum sustainable yield; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ESCAPEMENT; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAXIMUM SUSTAINABLE YIELD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; RANDOM WALK METHOD; SALMONID; WATERSHED;

ALASKA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 73949160792     PISSN: 0969997X     EISSN: 13652400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2400.2009.00719.x     Document Type: Article

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