80 Years of Multispecies Fisheries Modelling: Significant Advances and Continuing Challenges

Advances in Fisheries Science: 50 years on from Beverton and Holt

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 325-357

  Pinnegar, John K ^a   Trenkel, Verena M ^b   Blanchard, Julia L ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

80 years of multispecies fisheries modeling and continuing challenges; Dynamical Numerical Marine Ecosystem (DYNUMES) models; GADGET models; Multispecies assessment and management models; Multispecies fisheries modelling; MULTSPEC and BORMICON and spatially resolved predator prey interactions; Prognostic Bulk Biomass (PROBUB)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889498916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444302653.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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