Fish Stock Assessment


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Describes the scientific techniques used in assessing fish stocks, evaluating the effect of fishing on these stocks, and the probable impact of different policies for developing and managing fisheries. Covers the techniques developed starting with simple models and continuing to more complex methods.




Fish Stock Assessment Manual


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This manual examines mathematical models applied in fish stock assessment, including models and variation rates; cohort models and analyses; stock fishing patterns, components, stock-recruitment relations, short- and long-term stock projections; fisheries resources management with regards to biological reference points and regulation measures; production models; estimation of parameters; and exercises.







Stock Assessment for Fishery Management


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This publication contains guidelines for fish stock assessment and fishery management using the software tools and other outputs developed by the UK Department for International Development's Fisheries Management Science Programme (FMSP) from 1992 to 2004. It includes a CD-ROM with the installation files for each of the four FMSP software tools: LFDA (Length Frequency Data Analysis), CEDA (Catch Effort Data Analysis), YIELD and ParFish (Participatory Fisheries Stock Assessment).




Some Simple Methods for the Assessment of Tropical Fish Stocks


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This selection of methods is based on lecture notes used at a FAO/DANIDA training course held in Mombasa, Kenya, in May-June 1980. The methods presented are: regression and correlation, estimation of growth parameters from length-frequency data, estimation of mortalities (total, natural, fishing mortality) and analysis of catch and effort data. A brief annotated bibliography of tropical fish stock assessment is included.




FAO-ICLARM stock assessment tools


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Virtual Population Analysis


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Virtual population analysis (VPA) is a widely used model for the analysis of fished populations. While there are many VPA techniques, they vary in the way they use data and fit the model rather than in the form of the model itself. This manual describes the common VPA model and the assumptions on which it is based, together with descriptions of associated diagnostic procedures and common reference points







Fish Stock Assessment Manual


Book Description

This manual examines mathematical models applied in fish stock assessment, including models and variation rates; cohort models and analyses; stock fishing patterns, components, stock-recruitment relations, short- and long-term stock projections; fisheries resources management with regards to biological reference points and regulation measures; production models; estimation of parameters; and exercises.