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| Ravard, David; Brind'Amour, Anik; Trenkel, Verena. |
| Fishing affects fish populations through direct and indirect effects. It can change size structures and/or modify population mean weights. Reference values are thus needed to assess the status of populations in exploited ecosystems. These reference values can either be set by a historical approach, i.e. using information from before the onset of exploitation or overexploitation, or by a simulation approach. Using a model based on life-history parameters, we predicted population mean weights and length structures at equilibrium (in the absence of fishing and for fishing equal to different fishing mortalities) which we compared with contemporary data collected during scientific surveys in the Bay of Biscay. Contemporary mean weights were 88% to 30% smaller... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Indicators; Fishing impacts; Ecosystem based management; Fish community; Reference points; Northeast Atlantic. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00188/29968/28485.pdf |
