Overfishing and human-induced climate change are putting severe pressure on marine
ecosystems. In the southern Benguela, most of South Africa's commercial fisheries have a …

Fisheries scientists provide stock, ecosystem, habitat, and climate assessments to support
interdisplinary fisheries management in the US and worldwide. These assessment activities …

Indices of abundance based on fishery catch-per-unit-effort (CPUE) are important
components of many stock assessments, particularly when fishery-independent surveys are …

Abstract Developing Species Distribution Models (SDM) for marine exploited species is a
major challenge in fisheries ecology. Classical modelling approaches typically rely on fish …

Fisheries are complex systems comprised of scientific, management, fishing fleet, and
ecological sub-systems. Although the composition, behavior, and functions of these sub …

Abstract In South Africa, kelp forests and associated temperate reefs dominate the
nearshore subtidal zone in the southern Benguela, with kelp forests covering approximately …

Estimating trends in abundance from fishery catch rates is one of the oldest endeavors in
fisheries science. However, many jurisdictions do not analyze fishery catch rates due to …

Construction of annual indices of stock abundance based on the standardisation of catch
and effort data remains central to many fisheries assessments. However, while the use of …

This publication is a compilation of species profiles for 139 important marine linefish species
from 38 families caught in southern African waters, including both teleosts and …

Stock assessment models are fitted to abundance-index, fishery catch, and age–length–sex
composition data that are estimated from survey and fishery records. Research has …