Putative fishery-induced changes in biomass and population size structures of demersal deep-sea fishes in ICES Sub-area VII, Northeast Atlantic Ocean

Biogeosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 529-539

  Godbold, J A ^a,b   Bailey, D M ^c   Collins, M A ^d   Gordon, J D M ^e   Spallek, W A ^f   Priede, I G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands   (United Kingdom)

^e SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMASS; DEEP SEA; DEMERSAL FISH; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FISHERY PRODUCTION; GADOID; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LENGTH-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; SIZE STRUCTURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

ANTIMORA ROSTRATA; CORYPHAENOIDES RUPESTRIS; PISCES;

EID: 84873801762     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-529-2013     Document Type: Article

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