Managing fisheries from space: Google Earth improves estimates of distant fish catches

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 450-454

  Al Abdulrazzak, Dalal ^a   Pauly, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

catch reconstruction; fisheries management; Google Earth; satellite imagery; weirs

Indexed keywords

CATCH STATISTICS; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY PRODUCTION; FISHING EFFORT; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOFTWARE; WEIR;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; PERSIAN GULF;

EID: 84899117358     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fst178     Document Type: Article

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