Similarities between Line Fishing and Baited Stereo-Video Estimations of Length-Frequency: Novel Application of Kernel Density Estimates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Langlois, Timothy J ^a   Fitzpatrick, Benjamin R ^a   Fairclough, David V ^b,c   Wakefield, Corey B ^b,c   Hesp, S Alex ^b,c   McLean, Dianne L ^a   Harvey, Euan S ^a   Meeuwig, Jessica J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b WESTERN AUSTRALIAN FISHERIES AND MARINE RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Australia)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOERODON RUBESCENS; EPINEPHELIDES ARMATUS; FISH; FISH STOCK; FISHING; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATE; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; LONGLINE FISHERY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PAGRUS AURATUS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; TRAP FISHERY;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; FISHES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ARMATUS; CHOERODON RUBESCENS; CHRYSOPHRYS AURATUS; LABRIDAE; SPARIDAE;

EID: 84870503802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045973     Document Type: Article

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