Accounting for escape mortality in fisheries: Implications for stock productivity and optimal management

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 55-70

  Baker, Matthew R ^a   Schindler, Daniel E ^a   Essington, Timothy E ^a   Hilborn, Ray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fisheries management; Gillnets; Non retention; Oncorhynchus spp.; Pacific salmon; Population dynamics; Stock assessment; Stock recruitment modeling

Indexed keywords

FISHING EFFORT; GILLNET; MORTALITY; OPTIMIZATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RIVER SYSTEM; SALMONID FISHERY; SPAWNING; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISHERY; METHODOLOGY; ONCORHYNCHUS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ONCORHYNCHUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84893424074     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1871.1     Document Type: Article

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