Then, Amy Yee Hui and Hoenig, John Maurice and Huynh, Quang C (2017) Estimating fishing and natural mortality rates, and catchability coefficient, from a series of observations on mean length and fishing effort. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 75 (2). pp. 610-620. ISSN 1054-3139, DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsx177.
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Gedamke and Hoenig (2006) (Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 135: 476-487) developed a non-equilibrium version of the Beverton and Holt estimator of total mortality rate, Z, based on mean length and thereby increased the usefulness of length-based methods. In this study, we extend their model by replacing period-specific Z parameters with the year-specific parameterization Z y = qf y + M where q is the catchability coefficient, f y is the fishing effort in year y, F (=qf) is the fishing mortality rate, and M is the natural mortality rate. Thus, the problem reduces to estimating just three parameters: q, M and residual variance. We used Monte Carlo simulation to study the model behaviour. Estimates of q and M are highly negatively correlated and may or may not be reliable; however, the estimates of corresponding Z's are more precise than estimates of F and are generally reliable, even when uncertainty about the mean lengths is high. This length-based method appears to work best for stocks with rapid growth rate. Contrast in effort data may not be necessary for reliable estimates of Z's. This approach forms a bridge between data-limited models and more complex models. We apply the method to the Norway lobster Nephrops norvegicus stock in Portugal as an example.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Virginia Sea Grant 2014: Stock Assessment Analytical Methods (SAAM) Award No. NA14OAR4170297, Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education— University of Malaya scholarship |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | catchability coefficient; data limited; data-poor; fishing effort; mean length; natural mortality rate; Nephrops; non-equilibrium conditions |
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QH Natural history |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Institute of Biological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Feb 2019 07:08 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Feb 2019 07:08 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/20481 |
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