Catch and effort from a specialised recreational pelagic sport fishery off eastern Australia

Fisheries Research

Volumn 127-128, Issue , 2012, Pages 61-72

  Zischke, Mitchell T ^a,b   Griffiths, Shane P ^b   Tibbetts, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Access point survey; Catch rate; Environmental parameters; Gamefish; Generalised additive model

Indexed keywords

SCOMBEROMORUS;

EID: 84861910429     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2012.04.011     Document Type: Article

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