Causes of walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) recruitment decline in the northern Sea of Japan: Implications for stock management

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 95-103

  Funamoto, Tetsuichiro ^a  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental conditions; Generalized additive model; Recruitment decline; Sea of Japan; Spawning stock biomass; Stock management; Walleye pollock

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; GADOID; POPULATION DECLINE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPAWNING; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 79751477980     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2010.00570.x     Document Type: Article

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