Data reconstruction can improve abundance index estimation: An example using Taiwanese longline data for Pacific bluefin tuna.

ABSTRACT: Catch-per-unit-effort (CPUE) is often the main piece of information used in fisheries stock assessment; however, the catch and effort data that are traditionally compiled from commercial logbooks can be incomplete or unreliable due to many reasons. Pacific bluefin tuna (PBF) is a seasonal target species in the Taiwanese longline fishery. Since 2010, detailed catch information for each PBF has been made available through a catch documentation scheme. However, previously, only market landing data with a low coverage of logbooks were available. Therefore, several nontraditional procedures were performed to reconstruct catch and effort data from many alternative data sources not directly obtained from fishers for 2001-2015: (1) Estimating the catch number from the landing weight for 2001-2003,

SUBMITTER: Chang SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5624633 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature