Scaling up experimental trawl impact results to fishery management scales - a modelling approach for a "hot time"

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 733-746

  Ellis, Nick ^a   Pantus, Francis ^b   Pitcher, C Roland ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING EFFORT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; RESOURCE DEPLETION; STOCHASTICITY; SUCCESSION; TRAWLING;

EID: 84906329517     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: 12057533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjfas-2013-0426     Document Type: Article

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