Fine-scale analysis of arrowtooth flounder Atherestes stomias catch rates reveals spatial trends in abundance

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 438, Issue , 2011, Pages 229-239

  Zador, Stephani ^a   Aydin, Kerim ^a   Cope, Jason ^b  

^a NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrowtooth flounder; Atheresthes stomias; Bering Sea; Climate change; Cluster analysis; Fish distribution; Predation; Walleye Pollock

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CATCH STATISTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TELEOST; WATER DEPTH; WATER TEMPERATURE;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

PLEURONECTOIDEI; POLLACHIUS; REINHARDTIUS STOMIAS; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 80053589513     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09316     Document Type: Article

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