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FISHERIES RESEARCH
Volume 158, Issue -, Pages 40-49Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2013.09.012
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Selectivity; Retrospective pattern; Stock assessment; Pacific halibut
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The Pacific halibut stock assessment has proven to be a particularly challenging application for the estimation of selectivity. Contributing factors include: extremely pronounced temporal changes in length-at-age, a steep vulnerability curve for commonly used hook sizes, a minimum length limit, relatively late (similar to age 6-10) appearance of fish in survey and fishery data, and geographic heterogeneity in demographic parameters coupled with pronounced spatial trends in population abundance over time and significant ontogenetic migration over the stock range. Historical stock assessments have variously modeled selectivity as a function of length or age, employing nonparametric forms in attempting to account for these various factors. Despite these efforts, a strong retrospective bias in model results occurred during three separate time periods; each of which ultimately required modification of the selectivity parameterization to ameliorate that bias. This paper provides a summary of historical approaches, and the methods employed to address the most recent retrospective pattern. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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