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Fromentin, Jean-marc; Bonhommeau, Sylvain; Kell, Laurence; Restrepo, Victor. |
Estimating the productivity of an exploited marine species is not an easy or a trivial task. In the case of Atlantic bluefin tuna, the productivity can hardly be estimated from the natural mortality rates or the stock recruitment relationships because the former have never been estimated for this species from scientific data, but only “guesstimated”, while the latter remain highly uncertain for both the eastern stock (BFTE) and the western stock (BFTW). To get a better idea of bluefin tuna productivity, we thus applied the approach by Jennings et al. (1998) who proposed a surrogate of r, r’, named the potential rate of population increase. We compared this parameter and age-at-maturity (and to some extent the individual growth curves) of 25 species... |
Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Thunnus thynnus; Population growth rate; Fecundity; Maturity; CITES criteria. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00192/30293/28777.pdf |
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