Interannual-decadal variability of demersal fish assemblages in the Tsushima Warm Current region of the Japan Sea: Impacts of climate regime shifts and trawl fisheries with implications for ecosystem-based management

Fisheries Research

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 140-153

  Tian, Yongjun ^a   Kidokoro, Hideaki ^a   Fujino, Tadanori ^a  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bottom trawl; Decadal variability; Demersal fish assemblage; Japan Sea; Regime shift; Tsushima Warm Current; Water temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 82355181582     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2011.01.034     Document Type: Article

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