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 …

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 …

Synthesizing the spatial functionality of contemporary stock assessment software to identify future needs for next generation assessment platforms

AM Berger, C Barceló, DR Goethel, SD Hoyle… - Fisheries …, 2024 - Elsevier
Marine fishes are heterogeneously distributed across their ranges according to population
dynamics governed by complex spatiotemporal relationships between ontogenetic habitat …

Spatial stock assessment methods: a viewpoint on current issues and assumptions

AE Punt - Fisheries Research, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Best practices for defining spatial boundaries and spatial structure in stock assessment

SX Cadrin, DR Goethel, A Berger, E Jardim - Fisheries Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The 'stock concept'in fisheries science conforms to theoretical assumptions of stock
assessment models, including negligible movement across stock boundaries, relatively …

Space oddity: the mission for spatial integration

AM Berger, DR Goethel, PD Lynch… - Canadian Journal of …, 2017 - cdnsciencepub.com
Fishery management decisions are commonly guided by stock assessment models that
aggregate outputs across the spatial domain of the species. With refined understanding of …

Modelling recruitment in a spatial context: a review of current approaches, simulation evaluation of options, and suggestions for best practices

AE Punt - Fisheries Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Many, if not most, stocks of fish and invertebrates subject to commercial, recreational or
subsistence harvesting exhibit some degree of spatial heterogeneity. This can be due to a …

Model selection for selectivity in fisheries stock assessments

AE Punt, F Hurtado-Ferro, AR Whitten - Fisheries Research, 2014 - Elsevier
The choice of how to model selectivity differs among approaches to fisheries stock
assessment. VPA tends to make only weak assumptions regarding (age-specific) selectivity …

Spatial awareness: good practices and pragmatic recommendations for develo** spatially structured stock assessments

DR Goethel, AM Berger, SX Cadrin - Fisheries Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Spatial population structure is a fundamental aspect of marine populations, yet it is rarely
incorporated in stock assessment models. The unit stock assumption, a common feature of …

A novel spatiotemporal stock assessment framework to better address fine‐scale species distributions: development and simulation testing

J Cao, JT Thorson, AE Punt, C Szuwalski - Fish and Fisheries, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Characterizing population distribution and abundance over space and time is central to
population ecology and conservation of natural populations. However, species distribution …