Simulations to evaluate management trade-offs among marine mammal consumption needs, commercial fishing fleets and finfish biomass

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 523, Issue , 2015, Pages 215-232

  Smith, Laurel ^a   Gamble, Robert ^a   Gaichas, Sarah ^a   Link, Jason ^a  

^a NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Competing fishing fleets; Ecosystem based fisheries management; Multi species modelling; Protected species requirements; Reference points; Trade off evaluation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMASS; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; FINFISH; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; MARINE MAMMAL; MORTALITY; SIMULATION; TRADE-OFF; TRAJECTORY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84925359707     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: 16161599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps11129     Document Type: Article

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