Natural mortality rate, annual fecundity, and maturity at length for Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides) from the northeastern Pacific Ocean

• Main Authors: Cooper, Daniel W., Maslenikov, Katherine R., Gunderson, Donald R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Biology; Ecology; Fisheries; Arctic; Bering Sea; Greenland; Pacific; Stearns; Northwest Atlantic; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://aquaticcommons.org/8899/; http://fishbull.noaa.gov/1052/cooper.pdf; http://aquaticcommons.org/8899/1/cooper_FIsh_Bul_2007.pdf

Mortality, fecundity, and size at maturity are important life history traits, and their interactions determine the evolution of life history strategies (Roff, 1992; Stearns, 1992; Charnov, 2002). These same traits are also important for population dynamics models (Hunter et al., 1992; Clark, 1999)....