Fishery discards in the Irish Sea exhibit temporal oscillations and trends reflecting underlying processes at an annual scale

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 221-227

  Viana, Mafalda ^a   Graham, Norman ^b   Wilson, James G ^a   Jackson, Andrew L ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Discards; Harmonic regression; Time series; Trend

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOMASS; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; FISHERY DISCARD; FISHING MORTALITY; GADOID FISHERY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONALITY; STOCK ASSESSMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IRISH SEA;

GADUS MORHUA; MELANOGRAMMUS; MELANOGRAMMUS AEGLEFINUS; MERLANGIUS MERLANGUS;

EID: 79951991935     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsq160     Document Type: Article

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