Estimating Natural Mortality in Stock Assessment Application (open access)

Estimating Natural Mortality in Stock Assessment Application

The following document is a report taken during a three-day workshop to estimate natural mortality for use in stock assessment applications. The workshop covered biological aspects of mortality, methods for estimation of mortality, and best practices for use of mortality in assessment models. This document presents the findings during this workshop.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Brodziak, Jon; Ianelli, Jim; Lorenzen, Kai & Methot, Richard D., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Historic Fishing Methods in American Samoa (open access)

Historic Fishing Methods in American Samoa

Report discussing the historic fishing practices that are common place among American Samoans. Report includes fishing techniques, types of fishing, and variation between villages.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Armstrong, Karen; Herdich, David & Levine, Arielle
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessments: 2010 (open access)

U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessments: 2010

From preface: This is a working document and individual stock assessment reports will be updated as new information on marine mammal stocks and fisheries become available...These Stock Assessment Reports summarize information from a wide range of original data sources and an extensive bibliography of all sources is given in each report.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Caretta, James V.; Forney, Karin A.; Oleson, Erin; Martien, Karen; Muto, Marcia M.; Lowry, Mark S. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library