Estimating fish growth for stock assessments using both age-length and tagging-increment data

Fisheries Research

Volumn 180, Issue , 2016, Pages 113-118

  Francis, R I C Chris ^a   Aires da Silva, Alexandre M ^b   Maunder, Mark N ^b,c   Schaefer, Kurt M ^b   Fuller, Daniel W ^b  

^a Inter American Tropical Tuna Commission ^*  (New Zealand)

^b INTER AMERICAN TROPICAL TUNA COMMISSION   (United States)

^c Center for the Advancement of Population Assessment Methodology (CAPAM)   (United States)

Author keywords

Age length data; Growth; Stock assessment; Tagging increment data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934342638     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2015.06.011     Document Type: Article

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