Quantifying relative fishing impact on fish populations based on spatio-temporal overlap of fishing effort and stock density

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 618-627

  Vinther, Morten ^a   Eero, Margit ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

fish distribution; fishing impact; Kattegat cod; spatial modelling; VMS

Indexed keywords

DEMERSAL FISH; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING EFFORT; GADOID; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84876365881     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fst001     Document Type: Article

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