Bayesian Dynamic Modeling of Stock-Recruitment Relationships

• Main Authors: Renate Meyer, Russell B. Millar
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Fisheries stock assessment; Ricker curve; state-space methodology; timeseries bias; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Gibbs sampler; BUGS. 2; Fraser River; Hastings; Pink salmon
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.20.2590; http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~meyer/ricker.ps

Assessing the relationship between spawning stock size and the resulting number of adult ospring (recruitment) is one of the most fundamental issues in sheries stock assessment and an important cornerstone for management decisions on harvest policies in many sheries. This paper proposes a Bayesian s...