Influence of environmental, spatial, and ontogenetic variables on habitat selection and management of spiny dogfish in the Northeast (US) shelf large marine ecosystem

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
• Main Authors: Sagarese, Skyler R., Frisk, Michael G., Miller, Thomas J., Sosebee, Kathy A., Musick, John A., Rago, Paul J.
• Other Authors: Rosenfeld, Jordan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2014
• Subjects: Nes; Nes’; spiny dogfish; Squalus acanthias
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2013-0259; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/cjfas-2013-0259; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjfas-2013-0259

Declines in abundance of commercially valuable groundfish have highlighted the ecological and commercial importance of previously underutilized elasmobranchs in the Northeast (US) shelf large marine ecosystem (NES LME). Seasonal distributions and ontogenetic habitats of one such species, spiny dogfi...