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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"fishery-independent survey"”.
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Geostatistical spatiotemporal modelling with application to the western king prawn of the Shark Bay managed prawn fishery
… suited to the data under investigation, usually survey data involving fixed locations. Space-time geostatistical modelling of fish stocks within the fishing season is limited as the collection of fishery-independent survey data for the spatiotemporal sampling design is often costly or …
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ESTIMATION OF MORTALITY RATES FOR THE GULF MENHADEN STOCK AND REFERENCE POINT IMPLEMENTATION FOR THE FISHERY
… stock is the target of a large commercial fishery in the Gulf of Mexico. To address the needs of both the stock and fishery, I performed two studies. I first addressed the natural mortality rates currently used in the Gulf menhaden stock assessment. To update these rates, I used data from a …
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Spatial and temporal population dynamics of yellow perch (Perca flavescens) in Lake Erie
… of the yellow perch population by analyzing the fishery-independent surveys in Lake Erie. Model-based approaches were developed to estimate the relative abundance index, which reflected the temporal variation of the population. I also used design-based approaches to deal with the situation in …
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Delination of Coastal Shark Habitat within North Carolina Waters Using Acoustic Telemetry, Fisher-Independent Surveys, and Local Ecological Knowledge
… between sharks and species targeted by other fishery management or conservation efforts. To gain baseline knowledge of the availability and spatial extent of shark habitat in North Carolina waters, habitat was assessed at three spatial scales: coastal nearshore, whole estuarine, and estuarine …