Fishing and environment drive spatial heterogeneity in Celtic Sea fish community size structure

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2106-2113

  Shephard, Samuel ^a   Gerritsen, Hans D ^b   Kaiser, Michel J ^c   Truszkowska, Holly S ^c   Reid, David G ^b  

^a Atlantic Technological University   (Ireland)

^b MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecological Quality Objective; ecosystem approach to fisheries management; Large Fish Indicator; marine protected areas; VMS

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BIOINDICATOR; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FISHERY SURVEY; FISHING; FISHING EFFORT; HETEROGENEITY; MARINE PARK; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIZE STRUCTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TRAWLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CELTIC SEA;

EID: 80051967621     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsr137     Document Type: Article

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