Annual changes in spatial aggregation of Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua, age classes in NAFO Divisions 2J3KL and 4RS (1978-1994)

• Main Author: Bennett, Elizabeth Jane
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 2008
• Subjects: Northeast Newfoundland Shelf; atlantic cod; Gadus morhua; Newfoundland; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/10157/; https://research.library.mun.ca/10157/1/Bennett_ElizabethJ.pdf

Geographic contraction of range can be explained by using a basin model (MacCall 1990) which predicts that density-dependent populations will tend to contract toward the most favorable habitat as the population collapses. Literature has suggested that the distribution of demersal species such as Atl...