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- Title
A framework to incorporate environmental effects into stock assessments informed by fishery-independent surveys: a case study with American lobster (Homarus americanus).
- Authors
Hodgdon, Cameron T.; Tanaka, Kisei R.; Runnebaum, Jocelyn; Cao, Jie; Chen, Yong
- Abstract
Stock assessments for a majority of the world's fisheries often do not explicitly consider the effects of environmental conditions on target species, which can raise model uncertainty and potentially reduce forecasting quality. Model-based abundance indices were developed using a delta generalized linear mixed model that incorporates environmental variability for use in stock assessment to understand how the incorporation of environmental variability impacts our understanding of population dynamics. For this study, multiple model-based abundance indices were developed to test the incorporation of environmental covariates in a length-structured assessment of the American lobster (Homarus americanus) stock in the Gulf of Maine – Georges Bank on the possible improvement of stock assessment quality. Comparisons reveal that modelled indices with environmental covariates appear to be more precise than traditional indices, but model performance metrics and hindcasted fishery statuses revealed that these improvements to indices may not necessarily mean an improved assessment. Model-based abundance indices are not intrinsically better than design-based indices and should be tested for each species individually.
- Subjects
GULF of Maine; GEORGES Bank; AMERICAN lobster; SHELLFISH fisheries; FISHERIES; ENVIRONMENTAL indicators; AMERICAN studies; POPULATION dynamics; BLUE chip stocks
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences, 2020, Vol 77, Issue 10, p1700
- ISSN
0706-652X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/cjfas-2020-0076