Evaluation of age-length key sample sizes required to estimate fish total mortality and growth

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 832-840

  Coggins, Lewis G ^a   Gwinn, Daniel C ^b   Allen, Micheal S ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISH; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY; MORTALITY; OVERFISHING; PARAMETERIZATION; SIMULATION; STOCHASTICITY; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84876576701     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00028487.2013.768550     Document Type: Article

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