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Quantitative Fisheries Stock Assessment

Choice, Dynamics and Uncertainty

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Role of Stock Assessment in Fisheries Management

      • Ray Hilborn, Carl J. Walters
      Pages 3-21
    3. Objectives of Fisheries Management

      • Ray Hilborn, Carl J. Walters
      Pages 22-43
  3. Behavior of Fisheries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
    2. Behavior of Exploited Populations

      • Ray Hilborn, Carl J. Walters
      Pages 47-103
    3. The Dynamics of Fishing Fleets

      • Ray Hilborn, Carl J. Walters
      Pages 104-155
  4. Estimation of Parameters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
    2. Observing fish populations

      • Ray Hilborn, Carl J. Walters
      Pages 159-194
    3. Relating Models to Data: Parameter Estimation

      • Ray Hilborn, Carl J. Walters
      Pages 195-240
    4. Stock and Recruitment

      • Ray Hilborn, Carl J. Walters
      Pages 241-296
    5. Biomass Dynamic Models

      • Ray Hilborn, Carl J. Walters
      Pages 297-329
    6. Delay Difference Models

      • Ray Hilborn, Carl J. Walters
      Pages 330-348
    7. Virtual Population Analysis

      • Ray Hilborn, Carl J. Walters
      Pages 349-368
    8. Statistical Catch-at-Age Methods

      • Ray Hilborn, Carl J. Walters
      Pages 369-390
    9. Depletion Estimates of Population Size and Turnover

      • Ray Hilborn, Carl J. Walters
      Pages 391-409
    10. Analysis of Body Size and Growth Data

      • Ray Hilborn, Carl J. Walters
      Pages 410-433
    11. Multispecies Analysis

      • Ray Hilborn, Carl J. Walters
      Pages 434-449
  5. Managing Fisheries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 451-451
    2. Harvest Strategies and Tactics

      • Ray Hilborn, Carl J. Walters
      Pages 453-470

About this book

This book really began in 1980 with our first microcomputer, an Apple II +. The great value of the Apple II + was that we could take the computer programs we had been building on mainframe and mini-computers, and make them available to the many fisheries biologists who also had Apple II + 's. About 6 months after we got our first Apple, John Glaister came through Vancouver and saw what we were doing and realized that his agency (New South Wales State Fisheries) had the same equipment and could run the same programs. John organized a training course in Australia where we showed about 25 Australian fisheries biologists how to use microcomputers to do many standard fisheries analyses. In the process of organizing this and sub­ sequent courses we developed a series of lecture notes. Over the last 10 years these notes have evolved into the chapters of this book.

Reviews

"..useful in fishery science, population dynamics and fisheries management courses, especially at the undergraduate level...a valuable resource to scientists engaged in fish stock assessment and to fishery managers who wish to advance the state of their art."
(Journal of Natural Resources Modeling)
"...It is an excellent book and should be read by students and practitioners of stock assessment and management of fisheries...I enjoyed the book and commend it."
(ICES Journal of Marine Science)
"Risk and uncertainty have generally received short shrift in the fisheries literature. Hilborn and Waters take a big step toward overcoming this deficiency...I strongly recommend it to serious students and teachers as well as to practicing managers of fisheries for guidance in making more effective marketing decisions."
(Bioscience)
"I will certainly recommend this as one book fisheries scientists must read."
(NAGA, The ICLARM Quarterly)

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Quantitative Fisheries Stock Assessment

  • Book Subtitle: Choice, Dynamics and Uncertainty

  • Authors: Ray Hilborn, Carl J. Walters

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3598-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-412-02271-5Published: 31 October 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1845-9Published: 30 November 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-3598-0Published: 01 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 570

  • Topics: Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Statistics, general, Food Science, Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography

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Softcover Book USD 179.99
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