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 …

Marine population modeling, which underpins the scientific advice to support fisheries
interventions, is an active research field with recent advancements to address modern …

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 …

Abstract Interpretation of data used in fisheries assessment and management requires
knowledge of population (eg growth, natural mortality, and recruitment), fisheries (eg …

Integrated analysis (or integrated population modelling) methods have become the
preferred approach for conducting stock assessments, and providing the basis for …

Spatial stock assessments have been developed to address violations of the dynamic pool
assumption that the region to be assessed contains a single homogeneous stock. The …

Selectivity in fish is often size-dependent, which results in differential fishing mortality rates
across fish of the same age, an effect known as “Lee's Phenomenon”. We extend previous …

A variety of data types can be included in contemporary integrated stock assessments to
simultaneously provide information on all estimated parameters. Conflicts between data …

Recruitment is one of the most variable biological processes driving fisheries population
dynamics and the characteristics and drivers of the variation differ among stocks …

Stock assessments provide scientific advice in support of fisheries decision making. Ideally,
assessments involve fitting population dynamics models to fishery and monitoring data to …