Getting all information out of logbooks: Estimating banana prawn fishable biomass, catchability, and fishing power increase, with a focus on natural mortality

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 54-61

  Zhou, Shijie ^a   Buckworth, Rik C ^a   Ellis, Nick ^a   Deng, Roy A ^a   Pascoe, Sean ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian; de Lury; fishing efficiency; invertebrate; Leslie; predation; schooling

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BIOMASS; CATCH COMPOSITION; CRUSTACEAN; DATA SET; EDUCATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; INVERTEBRATE; MORTALITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRAWN FISHERY; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

AUSTRALIA;

FENNEROPENAEUS MERGUIENSIS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84922474793     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsu013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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