The dynamics and optimal harvesting of multispecies fisheries in fluctuating environments

• Main Author: Spencer, Paul David
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: DigitalCommons@URI 1997
• Subjects: Oceanography|Ecology|Aquaculture|Fish production; Schaefer; Steele; spiny dogfish; Squalus acanthias
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI9805250

Exploited marine fish and invertebrate stocks fluctuate in a myriad of complex patterns, reflecting variability on interannual, decadal, and longer time-scales. The specific mechanisms producing such fluctuations generally remain unknown, but likely involve some complex interrelation of (1) the effe...