Estimating fishery-scale rates of discard mortality using conditional reasoning

Fisheries Research

Volumn 125-126, Issue , 2012, Pages 318-330

  Benoît, Hugues P ^a,b   Hurlbut, Thomas ^a   Chassé, Joël ^c   Jonsen, Ian D ^b  

^a GULF FISHERIES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discard mortality; Error propagation; Fisheries observers; Mixture model; Survival modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860833852     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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