A method of detecting patterns in mean lengths of samples of discarded fish, applied to the self-sampling programme of the Dutch bottom-trawl fishery

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1712-1718

  Uhlmann, Sebastian S ^a   Bierman, Stijn M ^a   Van Helmond, Aloysius T M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

at sea sampling; data quality; discards; self reporting

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISH; FISHERY MODELING; LINEARITY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SAMPLING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRAWLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NETHERLANDS; NORTH SEA;

EUTRIGLA GURNARDUS; LIMANDA LIMANDA; MERLANGIUS MERLANGUS; PLEURONECTES PLATESSA;

EID: 80052013718     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsr066     Document Type: Article

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