Can stock-recruitment points determine which spawning potential ratio is the best proxy for maximum sustainable yield reference points?

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1075-1080

  Legault, Christopher M ^a   Brooks, Elizabeth N ^a  

^a NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

maximum sustainable yield; proxy reference points; replacement line; stock recruitment

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL MODEL; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPAWNING; STOCHASTICITY; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84883221184     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fst105     Document Type: Article

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