Estimates of fishing mortality, selectivity parameters (inflection point and width of the selectivity curve µS and σS respectively) and KL divergences obtained for each assessment approach.

AIC is the Akaike Information Criterion, calculated as AIC = 2 * KL divergence + 2 * number of parameters, where the KL divergence is calculated as the sum over all years of annual KL divergences. “Year-by-year” approach had 27 estimated parameters whereas “All years” had 11 free parameters. The units of selectivity parameters are mm total length for dusky kob (A.Coronus) and mm fork length for leerfish (A.Limia).