Title: Stock assessment review on the River Dart
Author: Josee N. Peress
Document Type: Monograph
Annotation: EA additional title info: fisheries technical report stock assessment review on the river dart may 1999
Abstract:
This paper gives, details of the assessment of the salmon and sea trout stocks for the River Dart from the 1950s to date. It also gives for the salmon population the results of the compliance to egg spawning target assessment according to the Environment Agency
national guidelines. Data used to evaluate the stocks include rod catches returns, net catches.returns and juvenile survey. Total salmon catches have been declining significantly since the beginning of the 1980s to date. Total sea trout catches have been decreasing slowly since the begining 1980s and have been quite variable.
Publisher: Environment Agency
Publication Date: 1990
Publication Place: [Exeter]
Subject Keywords: Rivers; Stock assessment; River fisheries; Fishery management; Spawning; Fishery data; Juveniles; Age structure; Salmon
Geographic Keywords: Dart (Devon); Devon; South Devon catchment
Extent: 4; + figures and tables
Permalink: http://www.environmentdata.org/archive/ealit:809
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