St Matthew Island Blue King Crab Survey-Based Assessment: Modifications and Preliminary Results

For the Fall 2012 St Matthew Island blue king crab stock assessment, the current author used a simple survey-based approach to obtain abundance and biomass estimates required for State and federal management purposes. This document describes that approach. This document also presents revised methods...

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Main Authors: William Gaeuman, G Kodiak
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.396.9372
http://www.alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/npfmc/PDFdocuments/membership/PlanTeam/Crab/May2012/SMBKCsurveyACL512.pdf
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Summary:For the Fall 2012 St Matthew Island blue king crab stock assessment, the current author used a simple survey-based approach to obtain abundance and biomass estimates required for State and federal management purposes. This document describes that approach. This document also presents revised methods for calculation of the OFL and for determination of the ABC. An