Associations between Surficial Sediments and Groundfish Distributions in the Gulf of Maine–Georges Bank Region

• Published in: North American Journal of Fisheries Management
• Main Authors: Methratta, Elizabeth T., Link, Jason S.
• Other Authors: National Research Council Sri Lanka
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2006
• Subjects: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; Ecology; Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Hake; atlantic cod; Gadus morhua; Squalus acanthias
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/m05-041.1; https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1577/M05-041.1

Abstract The delineation of essential fish habitat is an important element of contemporary fisheries management. Although local‐scale species–habitat relationships have been established for some managed species, we lack an understanding of these associations at the synoptic spatial scales on which f...