PROPOSAL
FOR SYMPOSIUM AT AFS 2004 ANNUAL MEETING
1)
TITLE: Recent Advances in Abundance Estimation and Stock Assessment.
2)
ORGANIZERS:
*Dr. Douglas S. Vaughan,
NOAA Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research, 101 Pivers
Island Road, Beaufort, NC 28516 (tel: 252-728-8761; FAX: 919-728-8619;
email: Doug.Vaughan@noaa.gov).
Dr. John M. Hoenig, Virginia
Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, P.O. Box
1346, Gloucester Point, VA 23062 (tel: 804-684-7125; FAX: 804-684-7327;
email: hoenig@vims.edu).
Dr. Michael H. Prager,
NOAA Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research, 101 Pivers
Island Road, Beaufort, NC 28516 (tel: 252-728-8760; FAX: 252-728-8619;
email: Mike.Prager@noaa.gov).
Dr. Kyle W. Shertzer, NOAA
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research, 101 Pivers Island
Road, Beaufort, NC 28516 (tel: 252-728-8607; FAX: 252-728-8619; email:
Kyle.Shertzer@noaa.gov).
*
Correspondence should be sent to Vaughan.
3)
DESCRIPTION: This symposium will present recent advancements
in quantitative methods for the understanding and management of fisheries.
The papers presented will cover a wide area of applications related
to the assessment of fish populations, both marine and freshwater.
Speakers will be chosen from different agencies and universities from
a wide geographic area. It is hoped that this broad focus will allow
meeting attendees to be exposed to a wide range of perspectives. Symposia
similar to this have been very well attended in the past [e.g., Providence
(2-day symposium in 1986), Anchorage (1989), Pittsburgh (1990), Portland
(1993), Halifax (1994), Hartford (1998), Charlotte (1999), Phoenix
(2001), Baltimore (2002), and most recently Quebec City (2003)]. Quantitative
methodologies continue to advance, so a symposium at Madison seems
highly appropriate. Topics of recent interest will continue to be
emphasized, including life history estimation, fisheries surveys,
tagging, habitat and spatial statistics, assessments with limited
data, biological reference points and control rules, multi-species
modeling, and the interface between science and management.
4)
FORMAT: Full day with 20 speakers.
5)
MODERATOR: Organizers will serve as moderators (AM: Doug Vaughan
/ John Hoenig, PM: Kyle Shertzer / Mike Prager, split moderators at
the breaks).
6)
AUDIOVISUAL NEEDS: Computer projector, slide projector and
overhead.
7)
SPEAKERS AND TITLES: (In order of presentation, with AFS assigned
abstract #)
1. Clark,
William. Nonparametric estimates of age misclassification from
paired readings. (#609)
2. He,
Ji X., and James Bence. Alternative approaches to modeling
annual variations in growth based on the von Bertalanffy function:
application to lake trout in Lake Huron. (#798)
3. Shertzer,
Kyle W., and Erik H. Williams. Effects of fishing on size-at-age:
A simulation analysis. (#759)
4. Van
Voorhees, David A., Gary Gray, and W. R. Andrews. Improved
effort estimators for the Marine Recreational Fishery Statistics Survey.
(#771)
5. Vølstad,
Jon H., Ken H. Pollock, and William Richkus. Comparing and
combining effort and catch estimates from aerial-access designs with
examples from a large-scale angler survey in the Delaware River. (#506)
6. Hoenig,
John M., Rob Latour and P. Sadler. What's Wrong with my Tagging
Study? An investigation of heterogeneity. (#830)
7. Ihde,
Thomas F. and John M. Hoenig. Design of a multi-year index-removal
model to estimate spawning run size of American shad, Alosa sapidissima,
which allows for various assumptions about catchability. (#532)
8. Pollock,
Ken H., and many co-authors. Incorporating catch and release
fishing into age-dependent tag-return models. (#599)
9. Pollock,
Ken H., and many co-authors. Age-dependent tag-return models
for estimating fishing mortalities, natural mortality and selectivities.
(#596)
10. Wood,
Robert J., and William
J. Connelly. Habitat as viewed from the cod end: Is ancillary substrate
and biogenic habitat information collected in benthic trawls useful
in characterizing fish habitat?. (#772)
11. Hewitt,
Dave, Ken H. Pollock, and Joseph Hightower. A model for estimating
the size of anadromous fish spawning runs using hydroacoustic monitoring
data. (#485)
12. Walter,
John F III. New spatial methods to incorporate catch data obtained
from commercial fishing vessels into stock assessments. (#791)
13. Christman,
Mary. Estimating the spatial average over an irregularly-shaped
study region. (#215)
14. Bunnell,
David B., and Thomas J. Miller. Blue crab management reference
points: application of an individual-based, yield-per-recruit model
in the Chesapeake Bay. (#83)
15. Williams,
Erik H., Douglas S. Vaughan, Joseph W. Smith, and Kyle W. Shertzer.
The role of Chesapeake Bay for the Atlantic menhaden population. (#711)
16. Methot,
Richard. Synthesis 2: Integrated analysis of fishery and survey
size, age, and abundance information for stock assessment. (#608)
17. Fleischman,
Steve. Bayesian age-structured stock recruit analysis in WinBUGS.
(#488)
18. He,
Xi, Marc Mangel, and Alec MacCall. Steepness prior based on
evolutionary persistence principle: An application to the MCMC runs
for the widow rockfish stock assessment. (#123)
19. Kinzey,
Douglas, Jason M. Cope, and Andre E. Punt. Adding trophic interactions
in a three-species stock assessment in the Aleutian Islands. (#507)
20. Conser,
Ray. Sardine, Albacore, and Moore’s Law: Connections
that even James Burke doesn’t know about. (#834)
21. Acheson,
J., P. Angermeier, J. Clark, T. Faast, J. Flemma, E. Knudsen, C. Jones,
T. Minello, D. Secor, P. Sullivan,
B. Wunderlich, and B. Zanetell. Best available science: What is it
and how we can provide it. (#593)
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SPONSORS: Marine Fisheries Section (AFS) and American Institute
of Fisheries Research Biologist (AIFRB).