Sentences with phrase «stock assessments»

Currently, most stock assessments of fish populations do not include climate signals in their calculations.

While traditional fisheries stocks assessment models are largely designed based on observed data, sufficient attention is not paid to the uncertainties underlying the resulting assumptions.

To improve stock assessments, the committee recommends that regulators pay more attention to fishing methods — which vary in their impact on different species — when predicting populations.

Stock assessment research, which combines statistics, economics, ecology and other disciplines, provides essential information for fisheries management.

In value investing, common stock assessments are made along a continuum with weights given to appropriate variables.

By applying new mathematical methods, the uncertainties related to fisheries stock assessment can be taken into account, thus providing more reliable assessments to support decision - making.

Wilf Luedke, Canada's chief of salmon stock assessment for the south British Columbia coast, told me he has nothing against careful tests of deep - sea iron fertilization, but worries that the debate — given the complexity in climate and ocean conditions shaping salmon populations — could distract from more clear - cut, and cheaper, ways to aid salmon, and absorb carbon dioxide, closer to shore.

Scientists are expected to come out with a new stock assessment for Pacific bluefin on Monday, January 7.

In her doctoral thesis, Henni Pulkkinen, Researcher at the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), explored how the various sources of uncertainty can be taken into account in fisheries stock assessment by using Bayesian statistical models, which enable extensive combining of information.

At one time, these animals were common in ocean waters off the United States; however, a recent stock assessment of the sharks along the U.S. East Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico showed an 80 percent decline even though they have been protected since 2000.

One of the success stories related to Bayesian modelling is the Baltic salmon stock assessment model, which Pulkkinen also reviews in her thesis.

The Commission recently launched the MEDFISH4EVER strategy to improve the state of Mediterranean fish stocks, which is obviously a step to the right direction,» said JRC researcher Paris Vasilakopoulos, co-author of the study, who contributed to the analysis of the Mediterranean fish stock assessment data.

As part of their review, the researchers examined the accuracy of stock assessment models by creating hypothetical fish populations, then simulating sampling.

Regular, independent stock assessments are needed instead, Cury says.

«Countries like the U.S., Australia and New Zealand invest a lot of money in monitoring catch, doing stock assessment and enforcing regulations.

Fisheries stock assessment provides information on the status of fish stocks and the impact of fishing on stock development.

NOAA Fisheries surveys and stock assessments continue to track the status of sardine, anchovy and other coastal pelagic species, while monitoring the health and abundance of sea lion populations, to provide data for the public and effective management of these species in changing ocean conditions.

«Our hope is that the next stock assessment will use our information on stock structure throughout the process of evaluating these species for management decisions,» Palkovacs said.

Young East Coast fish are making moves to cooler waters, and researchers say that could mean changes for regional stock assessments.

The JRC contributed to the study by analysing stock assessment data of commercial fish stocks in the Mediterranean Sea.

Under their agreement, the parties use those rules alongside regular scientific stock assessments to settle on a total allowable catch, or TAC.

His experience which includes fisheries biology, marine biology and ecology, stock assessment methods, oceanography and modern statistical methods.

Fundamental stock research and analysis is combined with a detailed assessment of the fundamental risk of owning each stock

NOAA has committed to revisit this decision by early 2013, when more information will be available about the effects of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill, as well as a new stock assessment from the scientific arm of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, the international body charged with the fish's management and conservation.

The sustainability of the fishing industries of many countries will depend on increasing flexibility in bilateral and multilateral fishing agreements, coupled with international stock assessments and management plans.

The USFWS reviewed recent stock assessments, considered over 4000 public comments, and consulted three independent experts in coming to their decision.

Lead the development of stock assessments for marine species (e.g..

The International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) uses fisheries stock assessment data in its annual scientific advice concerning the fishing quotas for the Baltic salmon.

«We will revisit the status of the species in early 2013 when we will have a new stock assessment and information from the Natural Resource Damage Assessment of the oil spill.

Ji's work will concentrate on transferring numerical modeling tools and data products developed in his on - going research projects for fisheries stock assessment.

The office, which is a target for elimination in the Trump administration's 2018 budget, would also see its support for stock assessments of red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico, funded at $ 10 million, moved to the National Marine Fisheries Service, the law notes, making the funding to Sea Grant «effectively above the fiscal year 2016 level.»

What is important about our study is that it is a different methodology than what is used by fisheries scientists for stock assessments, and therefore we serve as an independent verification,» says Kent Carpenter, a marine biologist at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and a co-author on the paper.

One aspect of EPP / MSI's Environmental Entrepreneurship Program is a two - part summer course on fish population dynamics and stock assessment.

The panel's conclusions are unlikely to silence critics of the stock assessment process, says Robin Alden, until recently commissioner of Maine's Department of Marine Fisheries and a major player in the New England fisheries crisis: «I'm afraid [critics] may dismiss this report unless [government fisheries scientists] do more to truly involve the fishing community in the process.»

To try to settle the controversy, several members of Congress from New England last year asked NRC to review the adequacy of stock assessments, which use mathematical models to predict how fish populations rebound after being culled.

«Uncertainties must be taken into account in fisheries stock assessment.»

«Instead public money should be spent for the public benefit and focussed on control of compliance with management rules, data collection, scientific research and stock assessments.»

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission conducts stock assessments of 23 key coastal fish stocks, and completed a major benchmark stock assessment for river herring in May 2012.

Then they used the stock assessments to not only calculate the overall fish populations, but also local fishing rates — how much of a fish population was being caught at a given time.

Essington and his colleagues turned to stock assessments — regular surveys of fish populations that are collected by both commercial fisheries and research vessels.

The Mediterranean stock assessment data were produced by the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF), a Commission expert group for which the JRC acts as the secretariat and provides expertise in stock assessments.

Worm and his 18 co-authors used data from catch reports, scientific surveys, stock assessments, modeling and other sources to try to get a clearer picture of the fisheries statuses than previous studies had achieved.

Further, this will help to provide critical — and timely — fisheries and stock assessment data to protect and preserve the vitality of this precious resource and fishing industry for generations to come.»

Due to an aging scientific workforce within NOAA and fewer students going into the necessary fields of study for fish stock assessment, there could be as many as 180 vacancies within NMFS over the next decade, according to a 2008 report issued by the Departments of Commerce and Education.