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Quantitative fisheries research surveys, with special reference to computers

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Fisheries research surveys are designed and conducted for a variety of purposes. Some examples are those of defining the geographical limits of distribution of a stock, studying the fisheries part of an ecosystem, and describing diurnal movements or seasonal migrations of a stock. The sole purpose considered here, however, is that of abundance estimation.

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Foote, K.G. (1996). Quantitative fisheries research surveys, with special reference to computers. In: Megrey, B.A., Moksness, E. (eds) Computers in Fisheries Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8598-9_4

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