A no BS guide to fishery stock assessment
University of Washington's Think Tank presentation “A no BS guide to fishery stock assessment” by Mark N Maunder (IATTC, CAPAM PI) on April 13th, 2021
Considerable progress has been made in fisheries stock assessment since the introduction of integrated analysis in a formal statistical context by Fournier and Archibald in 1982. However, despite the availability and common use of general software packages (e.g. Stock Synthesis), there is a lack of coordination, and stock assessment authors, even from the same lab, make different assumptions about the same population or fisheries processes. In a mature field of research, a standard set of procedures would be expected, but this is not the case for stock assessment. It is way past time that a set of good practices was developed for fisheries stock assessment. The Center for the Advancement of Population Assessment Methodology (CAPAM) was created to fulfil this goal. Workshops and the associated special issues have or soon will have been held and published on all the main population and fisheries processes and other important topics. These will all be revisited in the 2022 CAPAM workshop and associated special issue on fishery stock assessment good practices. This presentation outlines a very rough set of good practices to motivate discussion and researched that can be presented at the 2022 workshop.
Link to Power Point presentation
Link to questions asked during the presentation
