Standardisation of North Atlantic albacore ( Thunnus alalunga ), CPUE

Catch and effort data from the ICCAT database were standardised using General LinearModels to provide indices of abundance for the 2009 Atlantic MFCL stock assessment. Asystematic approach based upon inspection of diagnostics was used. While to allow analyses tobe run prior to and efficiently at the...

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Main Authors: Kell, LT, Palma, C, Tidd, A
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) 2010
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Online Access:http://ecite.utas.edu.au/116278
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Summary:Catch and effort data from the ICCAT database were standardised using General LinearModels to provide indices of abundance for the 2009 Atlantic MFCL stock assessment. Asystematic approach based upon inspection of diagnostics was used. While to allow analyses tobe run prior to and efficiently at the meeting and to aid in transparency the analysis wasdeveloped using the open source R statistical environment (cran.r-project.org) and code, dataand this manuscript are all available as part of a Google code project athttp://code.google.com/p/glmscrs/