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Filtering by: Creator Ralston, Stephen Degree Name Master of Science (M.S.) Subject Fish stock assessment -- Mathematical models

Stock Synthesis Assessments of Spatially Structured Fish Populations with an Environmental Driver on Recruitment Distribution : A Simulation Study and Discussion

Creator:

Denson, LaTreese S.

Abstract:

Stock assessments use statistical models and empirical data to re-create the population dynamics of a stock in order to provide estimates of biomass and fishing mortality rates to inform fisheries management. Fish stocks are not uniformly distributed across spatial regions, but stock assessments typically ignore stock spatial structure, for the...

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Masters Thesis

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to the north (Field and Ralston 2005). From drifter studies, we know that winter releases of larvae