Increasing biological realism of fisheries stock assessment: Towards hierarchical Bayesian methods

Environmental Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 135-151

  Kuparinen, Anna ^a   Mäntyniemi, Samu ^a   Hutchings, Jeffrey A ^b,c   Kuikka, Sakari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Fisheries management; Harvesting; Life histories; Overfishing; Stock assessment

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN STATISTICS; FISHERIES MANAGEMENT; LIFE HISTORY; OVERFISHING; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BIOLOGY; FISH; HARVESTING;

FISHERIES;

EID: 84863661740     PISSN: 11818700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/a2012-006     Document Type: Article

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