Stock assessment and projections incorporating discard estimates in some years: An application to the hake stock in ICES Divisions VIIIc and IXa

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1185-1197

  Fernandez C ^a   Cervino S ^a   Perez N ^a   Jardim, E ^b  

^a Instituto Español de Oceanografía   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bayesian; discards; hake; Markov chain Monte Carlo; population dynamics; stock management

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; FISHING MORTALITY; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); STOCK ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES;

PORTUGAL; SPAIN;

REXEA SOLANDRI;

EID: 77955883461     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsq029     Document Type: Article

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