Estimating individual growth variability in albacore (Thunnus alalunga) from the North Atlantic stock: Aging for assessment purposes

Fisheries Research

Volumn 180, Issue , 2016, Pages 54-66

  Ortiz de Zarate V ^a   Babcock, E A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Albacore; Back calculation; Bayesian modelling; Growth curves; Thunnus alalunga

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939193172     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2015.07.030     Document Type: Article

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