Empirical move-on rules to inform fishing strategies: A New England case study

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 359-375

  Dunn, Daniel C ^a   Boustany, Andre M ^a   Roberts, Jason J ^a   Brazer, Eric ^b   Sanderson, Melissa ^b   Gardner, Beth ^c   Halpin, Patrick N ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choke species; Discards; Move on rules; New England multispecies fishery; Real time closures; Spatiotemporal autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; COEXISTENCE; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING EFFORT; FISHING MORTALITY; MULTISPECIES FISHERY;

NEW ENGLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904394165     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/faf.12019     Document Type: Article

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