Connectivity, sustainability, and yield: bridging the gap between conventional fisheries management and marine protected areas

LW Botsford, DR Brumbaugh, C Grimes… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2009 - Springer
A substantial shift toward use of marine protected areas (MPAs) for conservation and
fisheries management is currently underway. This shift to explicit spatial management …

Establishing the efficacy of interventions to improve health literacy and health behaviours: a systematic review

R Walters, SJ Leslie, R Polson, T Cusack, T Gorely - BMC public health, 2020 - Springer
Background The primary aim of this review was to establish whether health literacy
interventions, in adults, are effective for improving health literacy. Two secondary aims …

Ecosystem service tradeoff analysis reveals the value of marine spatial planning for multiple ocean uses

C White, BS Halpern… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Marine spatial planning (MSP) is an emerging responsibility of resource managers around
the United States and elsewhere. A key proposed advantage of MSP is that it makes …

Examining the knowledge base and status of commercially exploited marine species with the RAM Legacy Stock Assessment Database

D Ricard, C Minto, OP Jensen, JK Baum - Fish and fisheries, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Meta‐analyses of stock assessments can provide novel insight into marine population
dynamics and the status of fished species, but the world's main stock assessment database …

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 …

Foraging arena theory

RNM Ahrens, CJ Walters, V Christensen - Fish and fisheries, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
There is a critical need for quantitative models that can help evaluate trade‐off decisions
related to the impacts of harvesting and protection of aquatic ecosystems within an …

Contemporary fisheries stock assessment: many issues still remain

MN Maunder, KR Piner - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Interpretation of data used in fisheries assessment and management requires
knowledge of population (eg growth, natural mortality, and recruitment), fisheries (eg …

Alternatives to statistical hypothesis testing in ecology: a guide to self teaching

NT Hobbs, R Hilborn - Ecological Applications, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Statistical methods emphasizing formal hypothesis testing have dominated the analyses
used by ecologists to gain insight from data. Here, we review alternatives to hypothesis …

Depletion-based stock reduction analysis: a catch-based method for determining sustainable yields for data-poor fish stocks

EJ Dick, AD MacCall - Fisheries Research, 2011 - Elsevier
We describe a method for determining reasonable yield and management reference points
for data-poor fisheries in cases where approximate catches are known from the beginning of …

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 …