This paper presents a brief review of the present state of knowledge in stock–recruitment
forecasting, including process and current methodological challenges to predicting stock …

Evidence of the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on marine ecosystems is
accumulating, but must be evaluated in the context of the “normal” climate cycles and …

Life history theories attempt to explain the evolution of organism traits as adaptations to
environmental variation. A model involving three primary life history strategies (endpoints on …

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

Evaluating the status of data-poor fish stocks is often limited by incomplete knowledge of the
basic life history parameters: the natural mortality rate (M), the von Bertalanffy growth …

The fishery for eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica in Chesapeake Bay, USA, was the
biggest oyster fishery in the world and the largest fishery in the US in the late 1800s. The …

Abstract Brooks, EN, Powers, JE, and Cortés, E. 2010. Analytical reference points for age-
structured models: application to data-poor fisheries.–ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67 …

Surplus production represents the processes that affect sustainable fishery harvest and is
central to the ecology and management of marine fishes. Taxonomy and life history …

Spatial homogeneity is the exception, not the rule, for many marine populations. Data
limitations or biological knowledge gaps, though, often drive the assumption of limited stock …

The surimi industry faces challenges due to the overexploitation of demersal fishes,
requiring precise fish stock assessments and the exploration of alternative raw materials …