Managing living marine resources in a dynamic environment: the role of seasonal to decadal climate forecasts

D Tommasi, CA Stock, AJ Hobday, R Methot… - Progress in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent developments in global dynamical climate prediction systems have allowed for
skillful predictions of climate variables relevant to living marine resources (LMRs) at a scale …

Unraveling the recruitment problem: A review of environmentally-informed forecasting and management strategy evaluation

MA Haltuch, EN Brooks, J Brodziak, JA Devine… - Fisheries …, 2019 - Elsevier
Studies describing and hypothesizing the impact of climate change and environmental
processes on vital rates of fish stocks are increasing in frequency, and concomitant with that …

Old-growth fishes become scarce under fishing

LAK Barnett, TA Branch, RA Ranasinghe, TE Essington - Current biology, 2017 - cell.com
Researchers have long recognized the importance of ecological differences at the species
level in structuring natural communities yet until recently have often overlooked the influence …

Modeling temporal variation in recruitment in fisheries stock assessment: a review of theory and practice

MN Maunder, JT Thorson - Fisheries Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Recruitment is one of the most variable biological processes driving fisheries population
dynamics and the characteristics and drivers of the variation differ among stocks …

Oceanographic drivers of sablefish recruitment in the California Current

N Tolimieri, MA Haltuch, Q Lee, MG Jacox… - Fisheries …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Oceanographic processes and ecological interactions can strongly influence recruitment
success in marine fishes. Here, we develop an environmental index of sablefish recruitment …

Spatio-temporal patterns in juvenile habitat for 13 groundfishes in the California Current Ecosystem

N Tolimieri, J Wallace, M Haltuch - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Identifying juvenile habitats is critical for understanding a species' ecology and for focusing
spatial fishery management by defining references like essential fish habitat (EFH). Here, we …

Good practices for including environmental data to inform spawner-recruit dynamics in integrated stock assessments: small pelagic species case study

PR Crone, MN Maunder, HH Lee, KR Piner - Fisheries Research, 2019 - Elsevier
When assessing the status of a fish population for advising management, the spawner-
recruit (SR) relationship, which represents stock productivity, is an important biological …

Oceanographic drivers of petrale sole recruitment in the California Current Ecosystem

MA Haltuch, N Tolimieri, Q Lee… - Fisheries …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates environmental drivers of US West Coast petrale sole (Eopsetta
jordani) recruitment as an initial step toward develo** an environmental recruitment index …

Perspective: Let's simplify stock assessment by replacing tuning algorithms with statistics

JT Thorson - Fisheries Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Stock assessments are important to sustainable ocean management, but develo**
assessments remains time-consuming despite increased computation power and access to …

Sea-level index of recruitment variability improves assessment model performance for sablefish Anoplopoma fimbria

N Tolimieri, MA Haltuch - Canadian Journal of Fisheries and …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Environmental recruitment indices may improve the precision of stock assessments, allow
hindcasting, and aid in near-term forecasting. We used Bayesian dynamic factor analysis …