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Calibrating virtual population analysis for fisheries stock assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2008

Yong Chen ,
Yan Jiao ,
Chi-Lu Sun  and
Xinjun Chen
Yong Chen
Affiliation:
School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, USA The Key Laboratory of Shanghai Education Commission for Oceanic Fisheries Resources Exploitation, Shanghai Fisheries University, Shanghai 200090, China
Yan Jiao
Affiliation:
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Chi-Lu Sun
Affiliation:
Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, 1 Section 4 Roosevelt Road, Taipei, Taiwan 10617, China
Xinjun Chen
Affiliation:
The Key Laboratory of Shanghai Education Commission for Oceanic Fisheries Resources Exploitation, Shanghai Fisheries University, Shanghai 200090, China
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Abstract

Virtual population analysis (VPA) is often used for assessing freshwater and marine fisheries resources. One important component in VPA is to calibrate abundance estimates with a time series of abundance indices. One of the commonly used calibration processes usually includes simultaneous estimation of cohort sizes across all ages and years. This reduces the flexibility of the model in accounting for age- and year-effects, in particular in the presence of an age-specific curvilinear relationship between abundance index and stock abundance. In this study, we compared this simultaneous method tuning approach with a stepwise approach which calibrates abundance age by age in tuning VPA. The simulation study suggests that the stepwise procedure tends to perform better with no obvious retrospective errors in the estimated stock biomass compared with the simultaneous method which tends to have large positive retrospective errors. In applying the stepwise procedure and simultaneous method to a cod fishery data set, we found large differences in the stock sizes estimated for the most recent year using these two methods, with the current stock size estimated using the stepwise method being substantially smaller than that estimated with the simultaneous method. Considering the likelihood of the presence of curvilinear relationship between abundance index and stock abundance, we conclude that the stepwise method yields more reliable results, and is less risk-prone in using VPA for fisheries stock assessment.

Keywords

Virtual population analysis (VPA)CalibrationStepwise procedureRetrospective problemStock assessment, and simulation
Type
Research Article
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Aquatic Living Resources , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 89 - 97
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© EDP Sciences, IFREMER, IRD, 2008

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