Classifying tagging experiments for commercial fisheries into three fundamental types based on design, data requirements and estimable population parameters

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 133-148

  Polacheck, Tom ^a   Paige Eveson, J ^a   Laslett, Geoff M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abundance estimation; Brownie models; Mortality estimation; Petersen method; Tag attrition models; Tag recovery experiments

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; FISHERY MODELING; FISHING MORTALITY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; STOCK ASSESSMENT; TAGGING;

SCOMBEROMORUS SEMIFASCIATUS;

EID: 77954010635     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2010.00360.x     Document Type: Review

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