Responses of fish production to fishing and climate variability in the northern South China Sea

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 85, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 197-212

  Qiu, Yongsong ^a   Lin, Zhaojin ^a   Wang, Yuezhong ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CONTROLLING MECHANISM; DEMERSAL FISH; FISH PRODUCTION; FISHING EFFORT; FUTURE CLIMATE; HEAVY RAINFALL; INSHORE WATERS; INTERANNUAL; INTERDECADAL; MONOTONIC GROWTH; MONSOON CIRCULATIONS; MONSOON WINDS; NORTHERN SOUTH CHINA SEA; NUTRIENT ELEMENTS; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PHYSICAL VARIABLES; POSITIVE EFFECTS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RIVER RUNOFFS; SUMMER MONSOON; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER CIRCULATION; WATER COLUMNS; WATER MASS; WIND MIXING; WINTER MONSOON;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FISH; FISHERIES; HEAVY WATER; HURRICANES; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; RUNOFF; STORMS; TIME SERIES; TROPICS;

NUTRIENTS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CATCH COMPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; DEMERSAL FISH; FISHING EFFORT; FISHING INDUSTRY; GROWTH RATE; MONSOON; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OVERFISHING; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; STRATIFICATION; TIME SERIES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; UPWELLING; WATER COLUMN; WATER MASS; WIND VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

PISCES;

EID: 77955560373     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2010.02.011     Document Type: Article

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