Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9481675 | Fisheries Research | 2005 | 15 Pages |
Abstract
We found densities of age-0 pollock near the Pribilof Islands to be generally higher than on the surrounding shelf, and higher or non-significantly different from the Inner Front. Through synthesis of our data and inferences of pollock growth and mortality, we estimate the Pribilof Islands region to have comprised 12.5% (1997), 53.7% (1998), and 24.7% (1999) of the total stock of age-0 pollock in the eastern Bering Sea. Since the Pribilof Islands region comprises only 14% of the total eastern Bering Sea area, evidence is given that a disproportionally large fraction of the age-0 pollock population inhabits the Pribilof Islands nursery.
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Authors
Gordon Swartzman, Andreas Winter, Kenneth Coyle, Richard Brodeur, Troy Buckley, Lorenzo Ciannelli, George Hunt, James Ianelli, Allen Macklin,