Fisheries Assessment and Management in Data-Limited Situations

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About the Symposium
xiii
The Lowell Wakefield Symposium Series and Endowment
xiii
Proceedings Acknowledgments
ix
Case Studies of Fishery Failures and Successes  
Overview of World Status of Data-Limited Fisheries: Inferences from Landings Statistics
Marcelo Vasconcellos and Kevern Cochrane
1
Risk-Averse Management of Eulachon in the Columbia River System
Greg Bargmann, John DeVore, and Bill Tweit
21
Managing Depleted Snapper Stocks in Inner Shark Bay, Western Australia
Peter Stephenson and Gary Jackson
31
Management of the Data-Limited Weathervane Scallop Fishery in Alaska
Gordon H. Kruse, Jeffrey P. Barnhart, and Gregg E. Rosenkranz
51
A Phased-Development Approach in the British Columbia Sea Cucumber Fishery
Dominique Bureau and Claudia Hand
69
Biological Considerations for Management of Data-Limited Surfperch (Family Embiotocidae) Populations in British Columbia
Thomas W. Therriault, Bryan Rusch, and Douglas E. Hay
87
Refining Management for Prince William Sound Sablefish
William R. Bechtol and Charlie Trowbridge
99
Indicators of Stock Health and Productivity from Limited Sampling Programs  
Indicators and "Response" Points for Management of Fraser River Eulachon: Protocols for Managing a Data-Limited Fishery
D.E. Hay, K. West, A.D. Anderson, and D. Rutherford
115
Management of Lake Char in Great Bear Lake, Canada: Historical Perspectives and Future Directions
Kimberly L. Howland and Ross F. Tallman
141
Density and Mortality in a Harvested Population of Quahog (Mercenaria mercenaria) in Nova Scotia, Canada
Kevin LeBlanc, Ghislain A. Chouinard, Marc Ouellette, and Thomas Landry
161
Timing of Parturition and Management of Spiny Dogfish in Washington
Cindy A. Tribuzio, Vincent F. Gallucci, and Greg Bargmann
177
Developing Assessments and Performance Indicators for a Small-Scale Temperate Reef Fish Fishery
Philippe E. Ziegler, Jeremy M. Lyle, Malcolm Haddon, and Paul Burch
195
Use of Quality Control Methods to Monitor the Status of Fish Stocks
James Scandol
213
Per-Recruit Simulation as a Rapid Assessment Tool for a Multispecies Small-Scale Fishery in Lake Malombe, Malawi, Africa
Olaf L.F. Weyl, Anthony J. Booth, Kissa Mwakiyongo, and Moses M. Banda
235
Do Commercial Fishery CPUE Data Reflect Stock Dynamics of the Baltic Herring?
Tiit Raid, Ahto Järvik, Leili Järv, and Olavi Kaljuste
255
Detecting Early Warnings of Recruitment Overfishing in Male-Only Crab Fisheries: An Example from the Snow Crab Fishery
J.M. (Lobo) Orensanz, Billy Ernst, David A. Armstrong, and Ana M. Parma
267
Involvement of Fishermen and Use of Local Knowledge  
Using Local Ecological Knowledge in Ecosystem Models
Cameron H. Ainsworth and Tony J. Pitcher
289
The Scotian Shelf Experience with Emerging Bivalve Fisheries
Dale Roddick
305
Estimating Economic Effects of Fishery Management Measures Using Geospatial Methods
Astrid J. Scholz, Mike Mertens, Debra Sohm, Charles Steinback, and Marlene Bellman
323
Sportfishing Catch and Harvest of Pacific Halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) in Glacier Bay National Park
Jason R. Gasper, Vincent F. Gallucci, Marc L. Miller, Jane Swanson, Chad Soiseth, and Darryll R. Johnson
339
Use of Observer Data in Management of the Grooved Tanner Crab (Chionoecetes tanneri) Fishery off Alaska
Douglas Pengilly, Ivan Vining, and David Barnard
357
Recreational Fisheries in Northeastern Brazil: Inferences from Data Provided by Anglers
Kátia M.F. Freire
377
Multispecies and Ecosystem Indicators and Models  
Assessing the Effects of Fishing in Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau, Northwest Africa
Kim A. Stobberup, Patrícia Amorim, Virginia Pires, and Vanda M. Monteiro
395
Evaluating Marine Ecosystem Restoration Goals for Northern British Columbia
Cameron H. Ainsworth and Tony J. Pitcher
419
Designing Fisheries Management Policies that Conserve Marine Species Diversity in the Northern South China Sea
William W.L. Cheung and Tony J. Pitcher
439
Ecosystem Simulations of Management Strategies for Data-Limited Seamount Fisheries
Telmo Morato and Tony J. Pitcher
467
Precautionary Management Approaches  
Minimum Stock Size Thresholds: How Well Can We Detect Whether Stocks Are below Them?
Z. Teresa A'mar and André E. Punt
487
Evaluating Harvest Strategies for a Rapidly Expanding Fishery: The Australian Broadbill Swordfish Fishery
Robert A. Campbell and Natalie A. Dowling
509
Fisheries Uncertainty: A Tropical Australian Data-Poor Fishery
David J. Welch, Rod N. Garrett, and Neil A. Gribble
533
Canada's Staged Approach to New and Developing Fisheries: Concept and Practice
R. Ian Perry, Rita Purdon, Graham Gillespie, and Edwin Blewett
553
The Impact of Recruitment Projection Methods on Forecasts of Rebuilding Rates for Overfished Marine Resources
André E. Punt and Richard D. Methot
571
A Review of Natural Mortality Estimation for Crab Stocks: Data-Limited for Every Stock?
Jie Zheng
595
Stock Assessment Models  
Application of a Kalman Filter to a Multispecies Stock Complex
Paul D. Spencer and James N. Ianelli
613
Assessing the Information Content of Catch-in-Numbers: A Simulation Comparison of Catch and Effort Data Sets
Richard McGarvey, André E. Punt, and Janet M. Matthews
635
FISMO: A Readily Generalized Fisheries Simulation
Ernesto A. Chávez
659
Three-Stage Catch-Survey Analysis Applied to Blue King Crabs
Jeremy S. Collie, Allison K. DeLong, and Gordon H. Kruse
683
Bias of Equilibrium-Based Estimators under Biological and Fishery Disequilibria
Billy Ernst and Juan L. Valero
715
Using a Spatially Structured Model to Assess the Tasmanian
Fishery for Banded Morwong (Cheilodactylus spectabilis)
Malcolm Haddon, Philippe Ziegler, Jeremy Lyle, and Paul Burch
737
Sensitivity of, and Bias in, Catch-Survey Analysis (CSA) Estimates of Stock Abundance
Benoit Mesnil
757
A Modifi ed Catch-Length Analysis Model for Golden King Crab (Lithodes aequispinus) Stock Assessment in the Eastern Aleutian Islands
M.S.M. Siddeek, David R. Barnard, Leslie J. Watson, and Robert K. Gish
783
Using Reproductive Value to Evaluate Surplus Production Models for Sharks
Ian G. Taylor and Vincent F. Gallucci
807
Stock Assessment Surveys and Applications  
Evaluation of Scuba Assessment Methods for Shallow-Water, Nearshore Black Rockfish (Sebastes melanops)
Michael M. Byerly and William R. Bechtol
831
Sampling Designs for the Estimation of Longline Bycatch
Muktha M. Menon, Vincent F. Gallucci, and Loveday L. Conquest
851
Accounting for Climate Variability in Forecasting Pacific Salmon in Data-Limited Situations
S. Kalei Shotwell, Milo D. Adkison, and Dana H. Hanselman
871
Surf Smelt (Hypomesus pretiosus) in Burrard Inlet, British Columbia: A Limited Data Assessment to Address Concerns about Potential Recreational Overharvesting
Thomas W. Therriault and Douglas E. Hay
901
Acoustical Estimations Confirm the Good Health of Gulf of Riga Herring
Olavi Kaljuste, Tiit Raid, Faust Shvetsov, and Guntars Strods
919
Participants
931
Index
937