Potential movement of fish and shellfish stocks from the sub-Arctic to the Arctic Ocean

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 355-370

  Hollowed, Anne Babcock ^a   Planque, Benjamin ^b   Loeng, Harald ^b  

^a NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Bering Sea; Biogeography; Climate change; Fish; Fisheries; Migration

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FISH; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOVEMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESIDENT POPULATION; SHELLFISH; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84880432213     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fog.12027     Document Type: Article

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