Modelling and forecasting stock-recruitment: Current and future perspectives

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2307-2322

  Subbey, Sam ^a,b   Devine, Jennifer A ^a   Schaarschmidt, Ute ^a,b   Nash, Richard D M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Environment; forecasting; modelling; review; stock recruitment

Indexed keywords

FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY SCIENCE; FORECASTING METHOD; LITERATURE REVIEW; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); STOCK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84911164849     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsu148     Document Type: Review

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