Reconciling stock assessment and management scales under conditions of spatially varying catch histories

Fisheries Research

Volumn 107, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 22-38

  Cope, Jason M ^a,b   Punt, André E ^b  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fisheries management; Serial depletion; Simulation testing; Spawning biomass; Stock structure; Stock synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650306530     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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