Latent Gaussian models to decide on spatial closures for bycatch management in the Barents Sea shrimp fishery

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
• Main Authors: Breivik, Olav Nikolai, Storvik, Geir, Nedreaas, Kjell
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2016
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Barents Sea; Laplace; atlantic cod; Gadus morhua; Pandalus borealis
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2015-0322; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/cjfas-2015-0322; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjfas-2015-0322

In the Barents Sea and adjacent water, fishing grounds are closed for shrimp fishing by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries Monitoring and Surveillance Service (MSS) if the expected number of juvenile fish caught are predicted to exceed a certain limit per kilogram shrimp (Pandalus borealis). Tod...