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Council selects fishery‑dependent index standardization for methodology review
Summary
The council authorized a methodology review of approaches to standardize commercial fishery‑dependent indices (spatio‑temporal models) to address nonrandom sampling, targeting, and hyperstability when fishery dependent data are used in stock assessments.
The Pacific Fishery Management Council voted unanimously to send a proposed methodology for standardizing fishery‑dependent indices to a formal methodology review under Council Operating Procedure 25.
The topic: The Northwest Fisheries Science Center proposed a review of spatial‑temporal modelling methods to standardize commercial fishery‑dependent indices. The goal is to develop and evaluate methods that account for the nonrandom nature of fishing effort and catch…
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