Effective fishing effort indicators and their application to spatial management of mixed demersal fisheries

Fisheries Management and Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 377-389

  Tidd, A N ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catchability; Effective effort; Effort control; Fishing efficiency; GLMM; North Sea flatfish fishery

Indexed keywords

CATCHABILITY; DEMERSAL FISH; DEMERSAL FISHERY; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FLATFISH FISHERY; MORTALITY; TRAWLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

PLEURONECTES; PLEURONECTES PLATESSA; PLEURONECTIFORMES; SOLEA SOLEA;

EID: 84883774449     PISSN: 0969997X     EISSN: 13652400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fme.12021     Document Type: Article

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