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The overall objective of the project was to estimate Gulf of Mexico
shrimp fishing craft costs and returns for use in assessing the impacts of
fishery management regulations. The final contract report is attached to
Ward, J.M. (1994) "Economic Analysis of Finfish Bycatch in the Gulf of Mexico
Shrimp Fishery."
Restrepo, Victor R. (1990). "Some Possible Biases in Swordfish VPAs due
to Sexually Dimorphic Growth." ICCAT Working Document, SCRS/90/,
Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies,
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of
Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, Florida and U.S.
Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast
Fisheries Center, 75 Virginia Beach Drive, Miami, Florida.
The purpose of this study is to identify possible biases in the UPA
methodology applied to swordfish that can result from using the Gompertz curve
(both sexes combined) to age the catch of a swordfish population hypothesized
to exhibit sexually dimorphic growth. For analysis, hypothetical populations
of swordfish were simulated using trends in recruitment and mortality loosely
based on the 1989 ICCAT assessment. The range of dimorphic growth hypotheses
defined was based on the analysis of Berkeley and Houde and that of Erhardt.
Restrepo, Victor R. and Christopher M. Legault (1997). "A Stochastic
Implementation of an Age-Structured Production Model." ICCAT
Working Document, SCRS/97/59, Cooperative Institute for Marine and
Atmospheric Studies, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric
Science, University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami,
Florida and U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service,
Southeast Fisheries Center, 75 Virginia Beach Drive, Miami,
Florida.
An aged structured production model (ASPM) has been used in past
assessments of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic
Tunas, particularly for albacore tuna in the southern Atlantic, and for
bluefin tuna in the western Atlantic. That model is sometimes preferable to
traditional biomass-based surplus production models because it can accommodate
age-structured indices of relative abundance. The ASPM estimates a
deterministic stock-recruitment relationship, a property that may result in
inconsistencies between the estimated level of recruitment and the observed
level of catches for recent cohorts. In this work, we relax the deterministic
assumption by incorporating stochasticity in recruitment around the
deterministic predictions as a first-order, autoregressive time-series
process. We use data for western Atlantic bluefin tuna to contrast the
deterministic and stochastic model fits, and examine the differences that
would result in management advice based on projections with either model.
Includes an application to Gulf of Mexico Spanish Mackerel as a case study.
Restrepo, Victor R. and Joseph E. Powers (1990). "A Comparison of Three
Methods for Handling the "Plus" Group in Virtual Population
Analysis in the Presence of Ageing Errors." ICCAT Working
Document, SCRS/90/, Cooperative Institute for Marine and
Atmospheric Studies, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric
Science, University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami,
Florida and U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and
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