Improving catch prediction for tiger prawns in the Australian northern prawn fishery

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 117-129

  Deng, Roy A ^a   Punt, André E ^a,b   Dichmont, Catherine M ^a   Buckworth, Rik C ^a   Burridge, Charis Y ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

catch prediction; effort prediction; northern prawn fishery; recruitment; retrospective analysis; size structure stock assessment

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CATCH COMPOSITION; CRUSTACEAN; DATA SET; FISHING EFFORT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POPULATION MODELING; PRAWN FISHERY; PREDICTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

AUSTRALIA;

PENAEUS MONODON; PENAEUS SEMISULCATUS;

EID: 84922466312     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsu033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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