Using information-based methods to model age and growth of the silver scabbardfish, Lepidopus caudatus, from the mid-Atlantic Ocean

Marine Biology Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 86-96

  Figueiredo, Cátia ^a   Diogo, Hugo ^a   Pereira, João G ^a   Higgins, Ruth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

AIC weights; Azores; bottom longline fishery; multi model inference; Trichiuridae

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; DEMERSAL FISHERY; FISHERY MODELING; GROWTH RATE; LONGLINING; MARINE RESOURCE; OTOLITH; PERCIFORM; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; VON BERTALANFFY EQUATION; VULNERABILITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; FAIAL; PORTUGAL; SAO MIGUEL;

LEPIDOPUS CAUDATUS; TRICHIURIDAE;

EID: 84911387541     PISSN: 17451000     EISSN: 17451019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17451000.2014.889307     Document Type: Article

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