Using acoustic data from fishing vessels to estimate walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) abundance in the eastern Bering Sea

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1231-1242

  Honkalehto, Taina ^a   Ressler, Patrick H ^a   Towler, Richard H ^a   Wilson, Christopher D ^a  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ACOUSTIC DATA; BOTTOM TRAWLING; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY SURVEY; FISHING VESSEL; GADOID; LIFE CYCLE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RESEARCH VESSEL;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 79960815143     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: 12057533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f2011-050     Document Type: Article

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