Implications of uncertainty for Canada’s commercial hunt of harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus)

The Canadian government's current management procedure for harp seals is described by Fisheries and Oceans Canada as using the Precautionary Approach. Employing a similar underlying population model, we simulated the effects of uncertainty involving bias in estimates of human induced mortal...

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Main Authors: Russell Leaper, Justin Matthews
Format: Manuscript
Language:unknown
Published: 2008
Subjects:
Tac
Online Access:http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1798/version/1
http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2008.1798.1