Natural mortality (M) is often considered to be one of the most important parameters in a fish
stock assessment and affects productivity estimates for the population. However, it is also …

Natural mortality (M) is one of the most influential parameters in fisheries stock assessment
and management. It relates directly to stock productivity and reference points used for …

Natural mortality (M) is one of the most influential and difficult to estimate number of losses in
fisheries stock assessment and management. Typically, natural mortality is estimated using …

A typical assumption used in most fishery stock assessments is that natural mortality (M) is
constant across time and age. However, M is rarely constant in reality as a result of the …

The natural mortality rate M is an important parameter for understanding population
dynamics, and is extraordinarily difficult to estimate for many fish species. The uncertainty …

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," …

The instantaneous rate of natural mortality (M) is an important but poorly quantified
parameter in most mathematical models of fish stock dynamics. This report reviews methods …

Abstract The Alverson and Carney (AC) model for estimating the instantaneous rate of
natural mortality (M) was reformulated to include β and t 0 parameters. The revised Zhang …

Natural mortality (M) in fish likely varies with age (size) and among years, and while M is
often assumed constant over these factors in stock assessments, several methods have …

Many methods have been developed in the last 70 years to predict the natural mortality rate,
M, of a stock based on empirical evidence from comparative life history studies. These …