Revisiting the concept of Beverton - Holt life-history invariants with the aim of informing data-poor fisheries assessment

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 194-203

  Prince, Jeremy ^a,b   Hordyk, Adrian ^b   Valencia, Sarah R ^c   Loneragan, Neil ^b   Sainsbury, Keith ^d  

^a PO Box 168   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beverton Holt life history invariant; data poor assessment; parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; LIFE HISTORY; META-ANALYSIS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STOCK ASSESSMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84904631753     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsu011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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