With numerous real-world examples, Modelling and Quantitative Methods in Fisheries,
Second Edition provides an introduction to the analytical methods used by fisheries' …

Abstract The Dungeness crab, Cancer magister, is a commercially important crustacean that
ranges from the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, to Santa Barbara, California. Mating occurs between …

Fishery surveys are an essential ingredient of modern fisheries stock assessment. To
understand this, one must understand that the survey time series are the essential anchor …

Abstract The eastern Bering Sea has experienced rapid and intensive development of
commercial trawl fisheries. Because of good record kee** and the relatively brief history of …

Tunas show a wide variety of life history strategies, spatial distributions and migratory
behaviors, yet they share a common trait of spawning only in tropical and sub-tropical …

The aim of the work presented in this paper was to assess the relative efficiency of the GOC
73 sampling trawl used for the Mediterranean international trawl survey programme …

A statistical hypothesis test for a difference between the spatial distributions of two
populations is presented. The test is based upon a generalization of the two—sample …

It is often assumed that assessments based on commercial catch and effort data, such as a
virtual population analysis, will track trends in abundance more accurately than …

Net samples data from the 15th Italian Antarctic Oceanographic Cruise (Jan-Feb 2000) were
analysed to obtain a general picture of the summer distribution pattern, abundance and …

Fishery independent indices of spawning biomass of Atlantic bluefin tuna in western North
Atlantic Ocean are presented which utilize National Marine Fisheries Service …