Multispecies fisheries management and conservation: Tactical applications using models of intermediate complexity

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-22

  Plagányi, Éva E ^a   Punt, André E ^a,b   Hillary, Richard ^a   Morello, Elisabetta B ^a   Thébaud, Olivier ^a   Hutton, Trevor ^a   Pillans, Richard D ^a   Thorson, James T ^a,b   Fulton, Elizabeth A ^a   Smith, Anthony D M ^a   Smith, Franz ^a   Bayliss, Peter ^a   Haywood, Michael ^a   Lyne, Vincent ^a   Rothlisberg, Peter C ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral Sea pelagic fishery; Ecosystem approach to fisheries; Ecosystem model; Minimally realistic model; Multispecies; Northern prawn fishery

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; MARINE RESOURCE; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PELAGIC FISHERY; PRAWN FISHERY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STAKEHOLDER;

ARAFURA SEA; AUSTRALIA; GULF OF CARPENTARIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA; CARPENTARIA;

EID: 84891633930     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2012.00488.x     Document Type: Article

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