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- Title
Long-term trends in age-specific recruitment of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in a changing environment.
- Authors
Holt, Carrie A.; Peterman, Randall M.
- Abstract
Sibling – age-class (sibling) models, which relate abundance of one age-class of adult sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) to abundance of the previous age-class in the previous year, are commonly used to forecast abundance 1 year ahead. Standard sibling models assume constant parameters over time. However, many sockeye salmon populations have shown temporal changes in age-at-maturity. We therefore developed a new Kalman filter sibling model that allowed for time-varying parameters. We found considerable evidence for long-term trends in parameters of sibling models for 24 sockeye salmon stocks in British Columbia and Alaska; most trends reflected increasing age-at-maturity. In a retrospective analysis, the Kalman filter forecasting models reduced mean-squared forecasting errors compared with standard sibling models in 29%–39% of the stocks depending on the age-class. The Kalman filter models also had mean percent biases closer to zero than the standard models for 54%–94% of the stocks. Parameters of these sibling models are positively correlated among stocks from different regions, suggesting that large-scale factors (e.g., competition among stocks for limited marine prey) may be important drivers of long-term changes in age-at-maturity schedules in sockeye salmon.
- Subjects
RECRUITMENT (Population biology); SOCKEYE salmon; ONCORHYNCHUS; AGE; KALMAN filtering
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences, 2004, Vol 61, Issue 12, p2455
- ISSN
0706-652X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/F04-193