1: Population Growth, Mortality, and the Fishing Process
2: Stock Productivity and Surplus Production
3: Stock and Recruitment
4: Growth and Fecundity
5: Delay-Difference Models
6: Age-structured Models: Per-Recruit and Year-Class Models
7: Age-structured Models: Renewal Theory
8: Catch-age and Age-structured Assessment Methods
9: Size-structured Models and Assessment Methods
10: Migration, Movement, and Other Spatiotemporal
Considerations
11: Optimal Harvesting
"This book, intended as a text for advanced courses, is a synthesis
of quantitative fish population models and methods for quantitative
stock assessment. Broadly inclusive, the book covers a variety of
methods and models and incorporates modern statistical concepts
where appropriate. Proceedings from simple to complex, chapters
cover population growth, mortality, and the fishing process (CPUE);
stock productivity and surplus production; stock and
recruitment;
growth and fecundity; delay-difference models; age-structured
models; catch-age and age-structured assessment methods;
size-structured models and assessment methods; migration, movement,
and
spatiotemporal considerations; and optimal
harvesting."--Fisheries
"Why should a terrestrial ecologist be interested in a book on fish
population dynamics, and especially a book on quantitative fish
population dynamics? There are at least two compelling reasons.
First, much of the foundational work in population ecology was
motivated by problems in fisheries. . . . Second, mathematical
methods are not taxon biased; theoretical methods have made a
considerable contribution in ecology because they allow us to see
connections
between apparently disparate systems. . . . Quinn and Deriso give a
broad and deep synthesis of the quantitative models used to study
the dynamics of fish populations and the methods used for
fisheries
stock assessment. . . . Reading and studying the book . . . will
definitely be worthwhile because one will see that this is really a
book about the fundamental problems in ecology . . . The book will
set a very high standard for analysis of fish population dynamics
and stock assessment as we move towards a sustainable
future."--Ecology
"This book stimulates valuable syntheses of diverse theory and
methods, deepens understanding of the properties and ensures wiser
applications of management modelling. The book covers a broad
spectrum of the recent developments in qualitative fish dynamics,
provides considerable theoretical and mathematical depth and an
excellent synthesis for many of these diverse developments. The
book is the first to review several recent applications of Bayesian
methods for
estimation and decision analysis in fisheries. It is worthwhile
reading mainly for those genuinely interested in the mathematical
properties of modelling approaches, and to gain information on
recent
advances in this field and on topics poorly covered in other books.
The book's broad coverage of current developments, attention to
detail and numerous illustrated examples make it an important
contribution and a handy reference for quantitative fisheries
scientists." - Murdoch McAllister, Trends in Ecology &
Evolution
"Over the last two decades the fields of fish population dynamics
and stock assessment have seen major advances; concomitantly,
fisheries worldwide have declined in productivity owing to
overfishing, habitat degradation, and climate change. This suggests
that strategies for improved fisheries assessment and management
will require greater overall understanding of linkages among
demographic, environmental, and anthropogenic processes that
underlie the dynamics
of exploited populations. This book provides an up-to-date
synthesis and coherent framework with which to explore and
comprehend these theoretical and practical issues. ... [It] clearly
fills a void
where no up-to-date textbooks exist ... [and will also] be useful
to a wider audience of fishery scientists, mathematical ecologists,
conservation biologists, population dynamicists, and resource
managers involved in research ..."--The Quarterly Review of
Biology
"This book, intended as a text for advanced courses, is a synthesis
of quantitative fish population models and methods for quantitative
stock assessment. Broadly inclusive, the book covers a variety of
methods and models and incorporates modern statistical concepts
where appropriate. Proceedings from simple to complex, chapters
cover population growth, mortality, and the fishing process (CPUE);
stock productivity and surplus production; stock and
recruitment;
growth and fecundity; delay-difference models; age-structured
models; catch-age and age-structured assessment methods;
size-structured models and assessment methods; migration, movement,
and
spatiotemporal considerations; and optimal
harvesting."--Fisheries
"Why should a terrestrial ecologist be interested in a book on fish
population dynamics, and especially a book on quantitative fish
population dynamics? There are at least two compelling reasons.
First, much of the foundational work in population ecology was
motivated by problems in fisheries. . . . Second, mathematical
methods are not taxon biased; theoretical methods have made a
considerable contribution in ecology because they allow us to see
connections
between apparently disparate systems. . . . Quinn and Deriso give a
broad and deep synthesis of the quantitative models used to study
the dynamics of fish populations and the methods used for
fisheries
stock assessment. . . . Reading and studying the book . . . will
definitely be worthwhile because one will see that this is really a
book about the fundamental problems in ecology . . . The book will
set a very high standard for analysis of fish population dynamics
and stock assessment as we move towards a sustainable
future."--Ecology
"This book stimulates valuable syntheses of diverse theory and
methods, deepens understanding of the properties and ensures wiser
applications of management modelling. The book covers a broad
spectrum of the recent developments in qualitative fish dynamics,
provides considerable theoretical and mathematical depth and an
excellent synthesis for many of these diverse developments. The
book is the first to review several recent applications of Bayesian
methods for
estimation and decision analysis in fisheries. It is worthwhile
reading mainly for those genuinely interested in the mathematical
properties of modelling approaches, and to gain information on
recent
advances in this field and on topics poorly covered in other books.
The book's broad coverage of current developments, attention to
detail and numerous illustrated examples make it an important
contribution and a handy reference for quantitative fisheries
scientists." - Murdoch McAllister, Trends in Ecology &
Evolution
"Over the last two decades the fields of fish population dynamics
and stock assessment have seen major advances; concomitantly,
fisheries worldwide have declined in productivity owing to
overfishing, habitat degradation, and climate change. This suggests
that strategies for improved fisheries assessment and management
will require greater overall understanding of linkages among
demographic, environmental, and anthropogenic processes that
underlie the dynamics
of exploited populations. This book provides an up-to-date
synthesis and coherent framework with which to explore and
comprehend these theoretical and practical issues. ... [It] clearly
fills a void
where no up-to-date textbooks exist ... [and will also] be useful
to a wider audience of fishery scientists, mathematical ecologists,
conservation biologists, population dynamicists, and resource
managers involved in research ..."--The Quarterly Review of Biology
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