Optimal harvesting of fish populations with nonlinear rates of predation and autocorrelated environmental variability

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-74

  Spencer, Paul D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH POPULATION; HARVESTING; MODELLING; OPTIMAL HARVESTING;

EID: 85047678127     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f96-260     Document Type: Article

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