A review of estimation methods for natural mortality and their performance in the context of fishery stock assessment

MN Maunder, OS Hamel, HH Lee, KR Piner, JM Cope… - Fisheries …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Natural mortality (M) is one of the most influential parameters in fisheries stock assessment
and management. It relates directly to stock productivity and reference points used for …

Oceans of plenty? Challenges, advancements, and future directions for the provision of evidence-based fisheries management advice

DR Goethel, KL Omori, AE Punt, PD Lynch… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2023‏ - Springer
Marine population modeling, which underpins the scientific advice to support fisheries
interventions, is an active research field with recent advancements to address modern …

Stock synthesis: a biological and statistical framework for fish stock assessment and fishery management

RD Methot Jr, CR Wetzel - Fisheries Research, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Stock synthesis (SS) is a statistical age-structured population modeling framework that has
been applied in a wide variety of fish assessments globally. The framework is highly …

Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it: A perspective on current stock assessment good practices and the consequences of not following them

AE Punt - Fisheries Research, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The ideal stock assessment would be able to estimate all of the key parameters related to
population processes within a framework that assigns appropriate weight to the data, fits the …

Contemporary fisheries stock assessment: many issues still remain

MN Maunder, KR Piner - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2015‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract Interpretation of data used in fisheries assessment and management requires
knowledge of population (eg growth, natural mortality, and recruitment), fisheries (eg …

A cookbook for using model diagnostics in integrated stock assessments

F Carvalho, H Winker, D Courtney, M Kapur, L Kell… - Fisheries …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Integrated analysis has increasingly been the preferred approach for conducting stock
assessments and providing the basis for management advice for fish and invertebrate stocks …

Comparing performance of catch-based and length-based stock assessment methods in data-limited fisheries

M Pons, JM Cope, LT Kell - Canadian Journal of Fisheries and …, 2020‏ - cdnsciencepub.com
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 …

Essential features of the next-generation integrated fisheries stock assessment package: a perspective

AE Punt, A Dunn, BÞ Elvarsson, J Hampton, SD Hoyle… - Fisheries …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Integrated analysis (or integrated population modelling) methods have become the
preferred approach for conducting stock assessments, and providing the basis for …

Generic solutions for data‐limited fishery assessments are not so simple

NA Dowling, ADM Smith, DC Smith… - Fish and …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The majority of the world's fisheries, by number, are data‐poor/limited, and there is a
growing body of literature pertaining to approaches to estimate data‐limited stock status …

Assessing abundance of populations with limited data: Lessons learned from data-poor fisheries stock assessment

A Chrysafi, A Kuparinen - Environmental Reviews, 2016‏ - cdnsciencepub.com
Estimation of population abundances in the absence of good observational data are
notoriously difficult, yet urgently needed for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of …