Three common cross-sectional catch-curve methods for estimating total mortality rate (Z) are
the Chapman–Robson, regression, and Heincke estimators. There are five unresolved …

Natural mortality rates (M) in fish populations vary with body size and age, often by orders of
magnitude over the life cycle. Traditionally, fisheries models and stock assessment methods …

The last two decades have witnessed rapid developments and increasing interest in use
of:(1) genetic methods to estimate effective population size (Ne) and (2) close‐kin mark …

Statistical models play an important role in fisheries science when reconciling ecological
theory with available data for wild populations or experimental studies. Ecological models …

Natural morality (M) is a notoriously difficult population parameter to estimate, yet it is also
one of the most important measures of life history that sets, as Beverton and Holt called it," …

Devil rays (Mobula spp.) face intensifying fishing pressure to meet the ongoing international
demand for gill plates. The paucity of information on growth, mortality and fishing effort for …

A basic step in understanding the dynamics of a fish population is to quantify movement and
mortality rates. Conventional mark–recapture experiments have provided the foundation for …

Legislative changes in the United States and elsewhere now require scientific advice on
catch limits for data-poor fisheries. The family of stock reduction analysis (SRA) models is …

Walleye (Sander vitreus) populations in Alberta, Canada, collapsed by the mid-1990s and
were a case study in the paper Canada's Recreational Fisheries: The Invisible Collapse …

The recently developed approach to estimating the instantaneous total mortality of coded-
wire-tagged lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) is generally applicable to catch-at-age data …