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 …

Size-and age-dependent natural mortality in fish populations: Biology, models, implications, and a generalized length-inverse mortality paradigm

K Lorenzen - Fisheries Research, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Natural mortality rates (M) in fish populations vary with body size and age, often by orders of
magnitude over the life cycle. Traditionally, fisheries models and stock assessment methods …

Towards process-oriented management of tropical reefs in the anthropocene

R Seguin, D Mouillot, JE Cinner, RD Stuart Smith… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Tropical reefs and the fish relying on them are under increasing pressure. Shallow-reef fish
provide important ecological information in addition to sustaining fisheries, tourism and …

Recruitment regime shifts and nonstationarity are widespread phenomena in harvestable stocks experiencing pronounced climate fluctuations

S Ma, G Huse, K Ono, RDM Nash, AB Sandø… - Fish and …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Methods to reliably identify jump discontinuities in biological time series and to assess the
specific contribution of various covariates are rapidly progressing. Here, we took advantage …

Potential impacts of the restoration of coastal and estuarine nurseries on the stock dynamics of fisheries species

M Gernez, J Champagnat, E Rivot… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Coastal and estuarine (CE) areas are essential fish habitats; they act as nurseries for a large
proportion of species of fisheries interest but face high levels of cumulative anthropogenic …

The consequences of density‐dependent individual growth for sustainable harvesting and management of fish stocks

JC Croll, T van Kooten, AM de Roos - Fish and Fisheries, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Density dependence is likely to act as a regulatory mechanism in fish stocks that are
recovering from overfishing. In general, density dependence in fish stocks is assumed to …

Adding to the mix–Challenges of mixed‐fisheries management in the North Sea under climate change and technical interactions

B Kühn, A Kempf, T Brunel, H Cole… - Fisheries …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Technical interactions (multiple fleets fishing multiple species with various gears, as either
target or bycatch), bycatch regulations through a landing obligation, and biological and …

Change in body size in a rapidly warming marine ecosystem: Consequences of tropicalization

KD Friedland, LC Ganley, D Dimarchopoulou… - Science of the Total …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Climate change is profoundly affecting the physical environment and biota of the Northeast
US Continental Shelf ecosystem. To understand adaptations to climate change, in particular …

Body length changes for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) over five decades exhibit weak spatial synchrony over a broad latitudinal gradient

TL Imlay, C Breau, GJR Dauphin, G Chaput… - Ecology and …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the factors that drive spatial synchrony among populations or species is
important for management and recovery of populations. The range‐wide declines in Atlantic …

Can regime shifts in reproduction be explained by changing climate and food availability?

M Tirronen, J Depestele, A Kuparinen - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Marine populations often show considerable variation in their productivity, including regime
shifts. Of special interest are prolonged shifts to low recruitment and low abundance which …