Estimating the Sex Composition of the Summer Flounder Catch using Fishery-Independent Data

Autor: Kristin Gerbino, Jason M. Morson, Eleanor A. Bochenek, Jennifer E. Gius, Eric N. Powell, Emerson Hasbrouck, Charles F. Cotton, Tara Froehlich
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Marine and Coastal Fisheries. 7:393-408
ISSN: 1942-5120
DOI: 10.1080/19425120.2015.1067261
Popis: Models that account for sex-specific behavior and population dynamics are becoming more common in the stock assessment of sexually dimorphic fishes. However, such models can be data intensive and require some knowledge or assumptions about the sex ratio of fishery landings. A recent stock assessment review of Summer Flounder Paralichthys dentatus identified the need to account for sex-specific fishing mortality in the assessment model; however, no data on the sex composition of the catch were available. Fishery-independent, sex-specific information for this species is collected annually by the National Marine Fisheries Service's Northeast Fisheries Science Center during their bottom trawl survey. Sex at age from the survey could be applied to the fishery landings if the probability of landing a given sex at a given age is equivalent for fish collected by the survey and those in the landings. To generate the first regionally comprehensive database on the sex ratio of Summer Flounder landings and to...
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