Evaluation of procedures to reduce bias in fish growth parameter estimates resulting from size-selective sampling

Fisheries Research

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 75-79

  Gwinn, Daniel C ^a   Allen, Micheal S ^a   Rogers, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Gear selectivity; Growth; Von Bertalanffy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954085587     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2010.03.005     Document Type: Article

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