Role of egg predation by haddock in the decline of an atlantic herring population

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 33, 2011, Pages 13606-13611

  Richardson, David E ^a   Hare, Jonathan A ^a   Fogarty, Michael J ^b   Link, Jason S ^b  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Depensation; Fish recruitment; Population dynamics; Predator pit

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC HERRING; BIOMASS; EGG; EGG PRODUCTION; FISH; FISHING; HADDOCK; MELANOGRAMMUS AEGLEFINUS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAWNING; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; FISHERIES; FISHES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OVUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; MELANOGRAMMUS; MELANOGRAMMUS AEGLEFINUS;

EID: 80051990638     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015400108     Document Type: Article

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