Varying components of productivity and their impact on fishing mortality reference points for Grand Bank Atlantic cod and American plaice

Fisheries Research

Volumn 155, Issue , 2014, Pages 64-73

  Morgan, M J ^a   Shelton, P A ^a   Rideout, R M ^a  

^a FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Maturity; Productivity; Recruitment; Reference points; Weight

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896518078     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2014.02.019     Document Type: Article

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