Mind the gaps: A state-space model for analysing the dynamics of North Sea herring spawning components

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1939-1947

  Payne, Mark R ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Clupea harengus; international herring larval surveys; North Sea autumn spawning herring; spawning components; state space model

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; CLUPEOID; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHERY MODELING; LARVA; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SPAWNING; STOCK ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE;

EID: 78649370196     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsq036     Document Type: Article

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