Assessing uncertainty in a multispecies age-structured assessment framework: The effects of data limitations and model assumptions

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 184-205

  Van Kirk, Kray F ^a   Quinn, Terrance J ^a   Collie, Jeremy S ^b   A'Mar, Z T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrowtooth flounder; Gulf of Alaska; Multispecies; Pacific cod; Pacific halibut; Predation; Steller sea lion; Stock assessment; Walleye pollock

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ARROWTOOTH FLOUNDER; GULF OF ALASKA; MODEL ASSUMPTIONS; MULTI-SPECIES; PACIFIC COD; PACIFIC HALIBUT; PREDATION; STELLER SEA LION; STOCK ASSESSMENT; WALLEYE POLLOCK;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EUMETOPIAS JUBATUS; GADUS MACROCEPHALUS; HIPPOGLOSSUS STENOLEPIS; REINHARDTIUS STOMIAS; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 84929605741     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nrm.12063     Document Type: Article

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