Development and evaluation of a cpue-based harvest control rule for the southern and eastern scalefish and shark fishery of Australia

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1699-1705

  Little, L Richard ^a   Wayte, Sally E ^a   Tuck, Geoffrey N ^a   Smith, Anthony D M ^a   Klaer, Neil ^a   Haddon, Malcolm ^a   Punt, André E ^a,b   Thomson, Robin ^a   Day, Jemery ^a   Fuller, Mike ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Australia; cpue; harvest control rule; management strategy evaluation; simulation

Indexed keywords

AGE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOMONITORING; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; FISH; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

AUSTRALIA;

CHONDRICHTHYES;

EID: 79960842639     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsr019     Document Type: Article

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