Detecting and correcting underreported catches in fish stock assessment: Trial of a new method

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1247-1261

  Bousquet, Nicolas ^a   Cadigan, Noel ^b   Duchesne, Thierry ^a   Rivest, Louis Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CATCH STATISTICS; FISHERY MODELING; GADOID; OVERFISHING; POPULATION MODELING; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE;

GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 77958064618     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: 12057533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F10-051     Document Type: Article

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