Stock assessment models are often used to inform fisheries management and need
therefore to be thoroughly validated. Different diagnostics exist to validate models including …

Integrated stock assessments specify a distribution for multiple data types, and these
distributions control the relative leverage assigned to each datum. A decade of research has …

Stock assessment models are fitted to abundance-index, fishery catch, and age–length–sex
composition data that are estimated from survey and fishery records. Research has …

Increasingly, mixed-effect fishery stock assessment models are being developed where
deviations about functional forms of different processes are modelled as random effects and …

The current stock assessment model for American plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides) on
the Grand Bank of Newfoundland (NAFO Divisions 3LNO) is a virtual population analysis …

State-space models have received increasing attention in fisheries stock assessments given
their flexibility to incorporate multiple sources of process errors. Identifying which process …

Modern management of fish stocks is based on integrating the precautionary approach with
the maximum sustainable yield framework. It relies on accurate estimation of precautionary …

Reference points are used in fisheries management to infer stock status and inform future
fishing opportunities. They can be estimated externally to the assessment model assuming …

How to properly weight composition data is an important ongoing research topic for fisheries
stock assessments, and multiple methods for weighting composition data have been …

Reference points are central in the current management of marine living resources.
However, reference points are estimated from data and model estimates. Therefore, they are …