Unraveling the recruitment problem: a review of environmentally-informed forecasting and management strategy evaluation

MA Haltuch, EN Brooks, J Brodziak, JA Devine… - Fisheries …, 2019 - Elsevier
Studies describing and hypothesizing the impact of climate change and environmental
processes on vital rates of fish stocks are increasing in frequency, and concomitant with that …

A review of stock assessment packages in the United States

CM Dichmont, RA Deng, AE Punt, J Brodziak… - Fisheries …, 2016 - Elsevier
Stock assessments provide scientific advice in support of fisheries decision making. Ideally,
assessments involve fitting population dynamics models to fishery and monitoring data to …

Old-growth fishes become scarce under fishing

LAK Barnett, TA Branch, RA Ranasinghe, TE Essington - Current biology, 2017 - cell.com
Researchers have long recognized the importance of ecological differences at the species
level in structuring natural communities yet until recently have often overlooked the influence …

Coupled changes in biomass and distribution drive trends in availability of fish stocks to US West Coast ports

RL Selden, JT Thorson, JF Samhouri… - ICES Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Fishing communities are increasingly required to adapt to environmentally driven changes
in the availability of fish stocks. Here, we examined trends in the distribution and biomass of …

Strategic management decision-making in a complex world: quantifying, understanding, and using trade-offs

AE Punt - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The use of management strategy evaluation (MSE) techniques to inform strategic decision-
making is now standard in fisheries management. The technical aspects of MSE, including …

History of the West Coast groundfish trawl fishery: Tracking socioeconomic characteristics across different management policies in a multispecies fishery

A Warlick, E Steiner, M Guldin - Marine Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
The Pacific groundfish fishery management plan was first approved in 1982, formalizing
what would become one of the most economically important fisheries on the West Coast of …

Oceanographic drivers of petrale sole recruitment in the California Current Ecosystem

MA Haltuch, N Tolimieri, Q Lee… - Fisheries …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates environmental drivers of US West Coast petrale sole (Eopsetta
jordani) recruitment as an initial step toward developing an environmental recruitment index …

How does growth misspecification affect management advice derived from an integrated fisheries stock assessment model?

CC Stawitz, MA Haltuch, KF Johnson - Fisheries Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Analysts must make many decisions regarding model specification when fitting integrated
fishery stock assessment models. While variation in vital rates (ie, recruitment, somatic …

Petrale sole transboundary connectivity and settlement success: a biophysical approach

F Santa Cruz, C Parada, M Haltuch… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Connectivity between inferred spawning areas and potential settlement areas of the petrale
sole (Eopsetta jordani) was explored in the California Current System (CCS) using an …

Using incentives to reduce bycatch and discarding: Results under the west coast catch share program

KA Somers, L Pfeiffer, S Miller, W Morrison - Coastal Management, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Catch share management was implemented in the bottom trawl sector of the West Coast
Groundfish fishery in 2011 to address a range of issues including high bycatch and discard …