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ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE
Volume 63, Issue 8, Pages 1373-1385Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.icesjms.2006.05.008
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cpue; ecosystem; fisheries management; Pacific Ocean; stock assessment; tuna
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Despite being one of the most common pieces of information used in assessing the status of fish stocks, relative abundance indices based on catch per unit effort (cpue) data are notoriously problematic. Raw cpue is seldom proportional to abundance over a whole exploitation history and an entire geographic range, because numerous factors affect catch rates. One of the most commonly applied fisheries analyses is standardization of cpue data to remove the effect of factors that bias cpue as an index of abundance. Even if cpue is standardized appropriately, the resulting index of relative abundance, in isolation, provides limited information for management advice or about the effect of fishing. In addition, cpue data generally cannot provide information needed to assess and manage communities or ecosystems. We discuss some of the problems associated with the use of cpue data and some methods to assess and provide management advice about fish populations that can help overcome these problems, including integrated stock assessment models, management strategy evaluation, and adaptive management. We also discuss the inappropriateness of using cpue data to evaluate the status of communities. We use tuna stocks in the Pacific Ocean as examples. (c) 2006 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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