Fisheries stock assessments are essential for science-based fisheries management. Inland
fisheries pose challenges, but also provide opportunities for biological assessments that …

In fisheries with limited capacity for monitoring, it is often easier to collect length
measurements from fishery catch than quantify total catch. Conventional stock assessment …

The quantity of data from many small-scale fisheries is insufficient to allow for the application
of conventional assessment methods. Even though in many countries they are moving to …

The term “data-limited fisheries” is a catch-all to generally describe situations lacking data to
support a fully integrated stock assessment model. Data conditions range from data-void …

Performance evaluation of data-limited, length-based methods is instrumental in
determining and quantifying their accuracy under various scenarios and in providing …

All fish stocks should be managed sustainably, yet for the majority of stocks, data are often
limited and different stock assessment methods are required. Two popular and widely used …

Large scombrids, commercial tuna species, are regularly assessed and managed. However,
most of the small scombrids, many mackerels and bonitos, lack accurate catch data to …

Successful fisheries management systems tend to be underpinned by harvest strategies,
specifying formally agreed data collection systems, assessment approaches and …

Small-scale fisheries play a critical role in food security and contribute to nearly half of
reported global fish catches. However, the status of most small-scale fisheries stocks is still …

Abstract The Generic Knowledge Indicator (GKI) was developed to classify the state of
knowledge for worldwide fisheries regarding three main components: biological/ecological …