Multi-Species Models of Time-Varying Catchability in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico
The catchability coefficient is used in most marine stock assessment models, and is usually assumed to be stationary and density-independent. However, recent research has shown that these assumptions are violated in most fisheries. Violation of these assumptions will cause underestimation of stock...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32662 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05122009-165241/ |