Estimating biomass, fishing mortality, and "total allowable discards" for surveyed non-target fish

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 458-466

  Shephard, Samuel ^a   Reid, David G ^b   Gerritsen, Hans D ^b   Farnsworth, Keith D ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

bycatch; catchability; data poor stocks; elasmobranchs; Pope's postulate; stock assessment

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOMASS; BYCATCH; CATCH COMPOSITION; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; DEMERSAL FISH; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISH; FISHING MORTALITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STOCK ASSESSMENT; VULNERABILITY;

IRELAND;

CHELIDONICHTHYES KUMU; CHELIDONICHTHYS; CUCULUS; ELASMOBRANCHII;

EID: 84922583805     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsu146     Document Type: Article

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