A new model for simulating growth in fish

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Hamre, Johannes, Johnsen, Espen, Hamre, Kristin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ 2014
• Subjects: stock assessment; bestandsberegning; growth; vekst; fisheries management; fiskeriforvaltning; VDP::Agriculture and fishery disciplines: 900::Fisheries science: 920::Resource biology: 921; Barents Sea; Bering Sea; Dent; Norwegian Sea
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/109321; https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.244

A real dynamic population model calculates change in population sizes indepen- dent of time. The Beverton & Holt (B&H) model commonly used in fish assessment includes the von Bertalanffy growth function which has age or accumulated time as an independent variable. As a result the B&H mod...