The effectiveness of the continuous underway fish egg sampler compared with standard vertical plankton hauls for sampling the eggs of demersal species in the southern North Sea

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 21, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 109-124

  Lelievre, S ^a   Vaz, S ^a   Fox, C ^b  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuous underway fish egg sampler; CUFES; Fish eggs; Generalized linear model; Spatial distribution; Vertical egg trawl

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DATA SET; DEMERSAL FISH; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EGG; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISH; GEOSTATISTICS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LINEARITY; PELAGIC FISH; PLANKTON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPAWNING; TRAWLING; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

PLEURONECTOIDEI;

EID: 84859573972     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2012.00613.x     Document Type: Article

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