Spatial and temporal trends in abundance of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, in Newfoundland with emphasis on impacts of the 1992 closure of the commercial fishery

Fisheries Management and Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 387-402

  Dempson, J Brian ^a   O'Connell, M F ^a   Schwarz, C J ^b  

^a FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abundance; Atlantic salmon; Effect of fishery closure; Salmo salar; Survival

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CONSERVATION; FISHERY; SALMONID; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

SALMO; SALMO SALAR;

EID: 9744247617     PISSN: 0969997X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2400.2004.00407.x     Document Type: Article

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