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LSIM is a length-based simulation model for fish populations in which
females spawn with an annual periodicity throughout their adult lives. It is
designed to facilitate analyses of dynamics of such populations, forecast
consequences of management alternatives, and explore the implications of
alternative hypotheses concerning such things as growth, mortality, migration,
or reproduction.
Goodyear, C. Phillip (1990). "Addendum, Status of Red Snapper Stocks of
the Gulf of Mexico, Report for 1990." CRD 89/90-05A, Southeast
Fisheries Center, Miami Laboratory, Coastal Resources Division.
This summarizes the results of additional analyses performed subsequent
to the completion of the 1990 Gulf of mexico red snapper assessment (Goodyear
and Phares, 1990). These analyses include an evaluation of the implications
of sharing the cumulative bag limit among headboat patrons and various
analyses performed at the request of the Reef Fish Assessment Panel that met
to review the assessment and other information to formulate advice for the
Gulf council concerning the level of acceptable biological catch and other
matters related to the Gulf of Mexico red snapper fishery.
Goodyear, C. Phillip (1990). "Spawning Stock Biomass per Recruit in
Fisheries Management: Foundation and Current Use." In Press,
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
Spawning stock biomass per recruit (SSBR) estimates the expected
lifetime reproductive potential of an average recruit (P) that is an important
correlate of population growth potential. The ration of the fished to
unfished magnitude of P is the spawning potential ratio (SPR) and is a measure
of the impact of fishing on the potential productivity of a stock. Current
use of SPR merges concepts developed to quantify the compensation require for
population persistence given anthropogenic increases in mortality with
observations of stock productivity and SSBR for fisheries in the western North
Atlantic. It has a firm theoretical basis and is evaluated against yield per
recruit and contrasted with other traditional biological reference points.
SPR is widely used in U.S. fisheries managed under the Magnuson Fishery
Conservation and Management Act, usually in the context of a percentage of the
unfished SSBR. Its implementation is intended to be risk aversive through
selection of minimum acceptable levels above which stocks maintain acceptable
productivity. The behavior of the underlying principles suggests SPR values
below about 0.2 should be avoided unless there is evidence for exceptionally
strong density dependence in the stock. Critical levels have typically been
set in the range of 0.2 to 0.3 primarily based upon the experience in the
northwest Atlantic.
Goodyear, C. Phillip (1992). "Red Snapper in U.S. Waters of the Gulf of
Mexico." Contribution: MIA 91/92-70, Southeast Fisheries Center,
Miami Laboratory, Coastal Resources Division, 75 Virginia Beach
Drive, Miami, FL.
The biological stock assessment of the red snapper fishery for the Gulf
of Mexico is presented in this paper. The conservation measures currently in
place are enhancing the condition of the stock. However, without the planned
permanent reduction of 50% in the bycatch mortality rate in 1994 or an even
higher reduction in 1995, it will not be possible to attain the spawning stock
goals of the Plan by the target date of 2007 and to also allow the directed
fishery to operate under the current catch limit of 4 million pounds.
Goodyear, C. Phillip (1993). "Red Snapper in U.S. Waters of the Gulf of
Mexico, 1992 Assessment Update." Contribution: MIA 92/93-76,
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