Estimating fisheries reference points from catch and resilience

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 506-526

  Froese, Rainer ^a   Demirel, Nazli ^b   Coro, Gianpaolo ^c   Kleisner, Kristin M ^d   Winker, Henning ^e,f  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISTI CNR   (Italy)

^d NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^e SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bayesian state space model; biomass dynamic model; data limited stock assessment; Monte Carlo method; stock recruitment relationship; surplus production model

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; CATCHABILITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPLOITATION; MAXIMUM SUSTAINABLE YIELD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84991728694     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/faf.12190     Document Type: Article

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