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List Of Figures | p. xi |
List Of Tables | p. xvii |
Preface | p. xix |
Acknowledgments | p. xxi |
Changing Objectives And Emerging Assessment Methods | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 3 |
The Role of Predictive Models | p. 3 |
The Distinction between Fish Science and Fisheries Science | p. 5 |
Approaches to Prediction of Policy Impact | p. 6 |
Experimental Management | p. 9 |
The Ecological Basis of Sustainable Harvesting | p. 12 |
Trade-Offs in Fisheries Management | p. 20 |
Trade-Off Relationships and Policy Choices | p. 22 |
Short-Term versus Long-Term Values | p. 25 |
Biological Diversity versus Productivity | p. 31 |
Economic Efficiency versus Diversity of Employment Opportunities | p. 37 |
Allocation of Management-Agency Resources | p. 39 |
Elementary Concepts In Population Dynamics And Harvest Regulation | p. 41 |
Strategic Requirements for Sustainable Fisheries | p. 43 |
Harvest Optimization Models | p. 46 |
Constructing Feedback Policies | p. 49 |
Feedback Policy Implementation | p. 58 |
Feedback Policies for Incremental Quota Change | p. 61 |
Actively Adaptive Policies | p. 63 |
Tactics for Effective Harvest Regulation | p. 65 |
Tactical Options for Limiting Exploitation Rates | p. 67 |
Managing the Risk of Depensatory Effects under Output Control | p. 69 |
Tactics for Direct Control of Exploitation Rates | p. 74 |
Regulation of Exploitation Rates in Recreational Fisheries | p. 77 |
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Monitoring Options and Priorities | p. 80 |
Maintaining Genetic Diversity and Structure in Harvested Populations | p. 83 |
Use And Abuse Of Single-Species Assessment Models | p. 87 |
An Overview of Single-Species Assessment Models | p. 89 |
Objectives of Single-Species Assessment | p. 89 |
State-Observation Components | p. 91 |
Estimation Criteria and Measuring Uncertainty | p. 95 |
Modeling Options | p. 101 |
Using Composition Information | p. 110 |
Dealing with Parameters That Aren't | p. 121 |
Foraging Arena Theory (I) | p. 124 |
Beverton-Holt Model for Stock-Recruitment | p. 128 |
Alternative Models Based on Juvenile Carrying Capacity | p. 132 |
Using Foraging Arena Arguments to Derive the Beverton-Holt Model | p. 136 |
Implications for Recruitment Research and Prediction | p. 147 |
Problems in the Assessment of Recruitment Relationships | p. 151 |
Which Parameters Matter? | p. 152 |
Predicting Reproductive Performance at Low Stock Sizes | p. 158 |
Predicting Capacity to Recover from Historical Overfishing | p. 160 |
The Errors-in-Variables Bias Problem | p. 162 |
The Time-Series Bias Problem | p. 165 |
Can Statistical Fisheries Oceanography Save the Day? | p. 173 |
Modeling Spatial Patterns And Dynamics In Fisheries | p. 179 |
Spatial Population Dynamics Models | p. 181 |
Life-History Trajectories | p. 182 |
Multistage Models | p. 185 |
Eulerian Representation | p. 188 |
Lagrangian Representation | p. 193 |
Policy Gaming with Spatial Models | p. 198 |
Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Fishing Effort | p. 200 |
Long-Term Capacity | p. 201 |
Short-Term Effort Responses | p. 204 |
Spatial Allocation of Fishing Effort | p. 210 |
Mosaic Closures | p. 223 |
Food Web Modeling To Help Assess Impact Of Fisheries On Ecological Support Functions | p. 229 |
Foraging Arena Theory (II) | p. 231 |
Understanding Foraging Arena Theory | p. 232 |
Predicting Trophic Flows | p. 236 |
Adding Realism (I): Foraging Time Adjustments | p. 240 |
Adding Realism (II): Trophic Mediation | p. 244 |
Ecosim | p. 246 |
Representing Trophic Ontogeny in Ecosim | p. 248 |
Single-Species Dynamics from Ecosim Rate Equations | p. 252 |
Ecosystem-Scale Variation | p. 254 |
Options for Ecosystem Modeling | p. 256 |
Qualitative Analysis of Dominant Trophic Interactions | p. 259 |
Qualitative Analysis of More Complex Linkages | p. 270 |
Models That Link Dynamics with Nutrient Cycling Processes | p. 271 |
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