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

Management strategy evaluation (MSE) involves using simulation to compare the relative
effectiveness for achieving management objectives of different combinations of data …

Retrospective patterns are systematic changes in estimates of population size, or other
assessment model-derived quantities, that occur as additional years of data are added to, or …

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

Management strategy evaluation (MSE) is a simulation approach that serves as a “light on
the hill” to test options for marine management, monitoring, and assessment against …

A typical assumption used in most fishery stock assessments is that natural mortality (M) is
constant across time and age. However, M is rarely constant in reality as a result of the …

The basis of natural resource management is decision making under uncertainty while
balancing competing objectives. Within fisheries management, a process described as …

Stock assessment analysts are exploring an increasingly diverse and complex range of
models while also facing higher expectations for consistency, documentation, and …

Management of marine resources depends on the assessment of stock status in relation to
established reference points. However, many factors contribute to uncertainty in stock …

The aim of stock assessment is to provide managers with an understanding of the biomass
and age-/size-composition of a stock, stock status (ideally relative to target and reference …