Assisting ecosystem‐based fisheries management efforts using a comprehensive survey database, a large environmental database, and generalized additive models

A Grüss, DD Chagaris, EA Babcock… - Marine and Coastal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Statistical habitat models, such as generalized additive models (GAM s), are key tools for
assisting ecosystem‐based fisheries management (EBFM) efforts. Predictions from GAM s …

Monitoring programs of the US Gulf of Mexico: inventory, development and use of a large monitoring database to map fish and invertebrate spatial distributions

A Grüss, HA Perryman, EA Babcock… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2018 - Springer
Since the onset of fisheries science, monitoring programs have been implemented to
support stock assessments and fisheries management. Here, we take inventory of the …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-shelf habitat shifts by red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) in the Gulf of Mexico

MA Dance, JR Rooker - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Habitat shifts that occur during the life cycles of marine fishes influence population
connectivity and structure. A generalized additive modeling approach was used to …

Accounting for spatial complexities in the calculation of biological reference points: effects of misdiagnosing population structure for stock status indicators

DR Goethel, AM Berger - Canadian Journal of Fisheries and …, 2017 - cdnsciencepub.com
Misidentifying spatial population structure may result in harvest levels that are unable to
achieve management goals. We developed a spatially explicit simulation model to …

Source–sink recruitment of red snapper: Connectivity between the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean

M Karnauskas, KW Shertzer, CB Paris… - Fisheries …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Geopolitical fishery management boundaries are often misaligned with the ecological
population structure of marine species, which presents challenges for assessment and …

Recruitment: Theory, estimation, and application in fishery stock assessment models

R Sharma, CE Porch, EA Babcock, MN Maunder… - Fisheries …, 2019 - Elsevier
The processes controlling recruitment have important implications for estimation of
management quantities such as maximum sustainable yield and for predicting the response …

Red Snapper connectivity in the Gulf of Mexico

AC Vaz, M Karnauskas, M Smith… - Marine and Coastal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objective Red Snapper Lutjanus campechanus is a valued, heavily exploited fish
species in the Gulf of Mexico. The species is distributed over a wide variety of habitats …

Ontogenetic spatial distributions of red grouper (Epinephelus morio) and gag grouper (Mycteroperca microlepis) in the US Gulf of Mexico

A Grüss, JT Thorson, SR Sagarese, EA Babcock… - Fisheries …, 2017 - Elsevier
Mapping the spatial distributions of fish populations is an integral component of ecosystem-
based fisheries management (EBFM). Particularly for red grouper (Epinephelus morio) and …

Connectivity of the Gulf of Mexico continental shelf fish populations and implications of simulated oil spills

CB Paris, SA Murawski, MJ Olascoaga, AC Vaz… - … and responses to future …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Gulf of Mexico (GoM) marine ecosystem is experiencing acute stressors.
Natural (eg, hurricanes, harmful algal blooms) or anthropogenic (eg, oil spills), these …

Decadal analysis of larval connectivity from Cuban snapper (Lutjanidae) spawning aggregations based on biophysical modeling

AS Kough, R Claro, KC Lindeman… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2016 - int-res.com
Variability in environmental conditions and ocean currents can influence population
connectivity and the exchange of larvae among locations. This is especially true for species …