A third of global fish stocks are overexploited and many are economically underperforming, resulting in potential unrealized net economic benefits of USD 51 to 83 billion annually. However, this aggre
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game conducted bottom trawl surveys for crabs and groundfishes in Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound from 1989 to 2018. The trawl surveys superseded earlier pot surv
Biologic data have been expressed in abundance (numbers or density values (nbr/km²)) and always required to be log-transformed using a log10(x+1) transformation. Abundance mean...
State-space models have received increasing attention in fisheries stock assessments given their flexibility to incorporate multiple sources of process errors. Identifying which process errors to incl
