Latent Gaussian models to predict historical bycatch in commercial fishery

• Published in: Fisheries Research
• Main Authors: Breivik, Olav Nikolai, Storvik, Geir Olve, Nedreaas, Kjell Harald
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Science 2016
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Laplace; Gadus morhua; Pandalus borealis
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/59360; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-62044; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2016.09.033

Knowledge about how many fish that have been killed due to bycatch is an important aspect of ensuring a sustainable ecosystem and fishery. We introduce a Bayesian spatio-temporal prediction method for historical bycatch that incorporates two sources of available data sets, fishery data and survey da...