Assessment course

• 4. september: The course summary lecture was added
• 3. september: A link to the manual on Pasgear was added (see under heading Software)

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• Fisheries of the world - Global fisheries overview
• Biostatistics 1: Descriptive, measure of central tendency and measure of distribution

• Fisheries in the Caribbean - Regional overview
• Alternative approaches. Incorporation traditional knowledge
• Age/size patterns in fisheries data: Case history of the Icelandic cod
• Biostatistic 2: Confronting models with data

• Patterns of exploitation, industrial vs. small scale
• Principle of stock assessment, introduction to fundamental equation
  • pdf format
• Biostatistic 3: Bootstrapping
  • An excel demonstration

• Fisheries and resource management, role of fisheries scientist
• Age and growth
• Gear selectivity
• Biostatistics 4: General linear model

• Ecosystem approach to fisheries management & Marine Protected Area

• Life history history traits & ecological adaptation
• Living Marine Resource Governance in the Wider Caribbean
• Estimating mortality

• 09:00 - 10:00 Fishing effects on populations and communities
• 10:20 - 12:00 Yield and spawning stock per recruit
• 13:00 - 15:00 Growth excercise
• 15:30 - 17:00 Pasgear: Overview & excercise on importing & exploring catch and effort data

• 09:00 - 10:00 Ecological concepts in relation to multy-species fisheries, fishing down the food web
• 10:20 - 12:00 Fitting surplus production model
• 13:00 - 15:00 Mortality exercise
• 15:30 - 17:00 Pasgear

• 09:00 - 10:00 Fish and climate
  • Lake Victoria - East Africa
• 10:20 - 12:00 Statistical catch at age
  • The monster model in xCel speak
• 13:00 - 16:00 Surplus production excercise
• 16:00 - 17:00 Discussion on intersessional projects

• 09:00 - 10:00 Sampling theory and sampling design
• 10:20 - 12:00 Catchup on practicals
• 13:00 - 14:00 Summary
• 14:00 - 16:30 Discussions - next steps (intersessional excercises & 2nd meeting)
• 16:30 - 17:00 Closing

• Biostatistics: Excel tips and tricks

• Biostatistics: Confronting models with data
  • The Excel spreadsheet

• Biostatistics: Standardizing catch rates (cpue)
  • the data - the access to the file is not available from this open site

• Storing and exploring data using Pasgear 2: PASGEAR 2 is a customised data base package primarily intended for experimental or artisanal fishery data. It is a tool that neatly and quickly lets you store and analyse fishery data from various survey designs. The software is free and can be downloded from this site.
  • Introduction to Pasgear

• Estimating growth (Linf and k)
  • The document
  • Length and age data
  • Length frequency data

• Estimating mortality
  • The spreadsheet

• Stock production model
  • Solution: Distribution 2
  • Further considerations

• pasgear flyfish cpue - the access to the file is not available from this open site

Sparre, P.; Venema, S.C. 1998. Introduction to tropical fish stock assessment. Part 1. Manual. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No. 306.1, Rev. 2. Rome, FAO. 1998. 407p.

Malcom Haddon 2001. Modelling and quantitative methods in fisheries. Chapman & Hall/CRC. 406p. ISBN 1584881771, 9781584881773

R. Hilborn and C.J. Walters 1992. Quantitative fisheries stock assessment: Choice, dynamics and uncertainty. Chapman & Hall, London. ISBN 0-412-02271-0

Carl J. Walters & Steven J. D. Martell 2004. Fisheries Ecology and Management. Princeton University Press. ISBN13: 978-0-691-11545-0

S. Jennings, M. Kaiser and J. Renolds. 2001. Marine Fisheries ecology.

• Pasgear
  • Download site (same as referred to in a link above)
  • Pasgear - Introduction and manual
  • Introduction to Pasgear (same as referred to in a link above

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