Fish stock assessment manual / by Emygdio L. Cadima

“Includes bibliography”—(p. xvii-xx).

“ISSN 04299345”—cover page.

“The manual follows the same order of the lectures in the last course held in IPIMAR (November

December 1997). It starts with an introduction to the mathematical models applied in fish stock assessment and some considerations on the importance of fisheries. The need for a rational management of the fishing resources is then stressed, this being indispensable for an adequate exploitation, aiming at conservation, to occur…”—(p. iv).

Contents: Glossary of technical terms used in the manual—Bibliography—1. Introduction—2. Models and rates—3. Cohort—4. Stock—5. Biological reference points and regulation measures—6. Production models—7. Estimation of parameters—8. Exercises.