The recent miniaturization of acoustic tracking devices has allowed fishery managers and scientists to collect spatial and temporal data for sustainable fishery management. The spatial and temporal dimensions of fish behavior (movement and/or vertical migrations) are particularly relevant for rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) because most rockfish species are long-lived and have high site fidelity, in...

For sustainable management of exploited populations, it is required to have good knowledge on temporal trends in population density adapt the harvest. In this regard, hunting statistics are often collected routinely by government agencies and associations. These data used assess demographic through development indices, which turn manage populations a way. However, these indices depend features ...

Context Understanding the effects that learned responses to being captured have on subsequent recapture rates and associated abundance estimates is important for developing accurate descriptions of populations communities. Although variation in willingness individual turtles be trapped commonly mentioned literature, few studies experimentally tested trap avoidance (or fondness) turtles. Aims To...

Reef fishes that exhibit predictable aggregating behaviour are often considered vulnerable to overexploitation. However, fisher knowledge of this behaviour is often heterogeneous and, coupled with socioeconomic factors that constrain demand for or access to aggregated fish, will influence susceptibility to fishing. At two case study locations in Papua New Guinea, Ahus and Karkar islands, we con...

A new feature extraction method for very non-normal data: analysis of multivariate species-size data from a tuna purse-seine fishery .. This report is organized into sections corresponding to the topics discussed at the workshop. Under each section, introductory text, taken from the background information provided to participants before the workshop, is given. Then abstracts for each presentati...

As modern fishery assessments change in an effort to be more accurate and encompass the range of potential ecosystem interactions, critical information on the ecology of species including life history, intra and inter-specific competitive interactions and habitat requirements must be added to the standard fishery-dependent and independent data sets. One species whose movements and habitat assoc...

Human exploitation of marine resources is profoundly altering marine ecosystems, while climate change is expected to further impact commercially-harvested fish and other species. Although the global fishery is a highly complex system with many unpredictable aspects, the bioenergetic limits on fish production and the response of fishing effort to profit are both relatively tractable, and are sur...