A review of applications evaluating fisheries management scenarios through marine ecosystem models

HA Perryman, C Hansen, D Howell… - Reviews in Fisheries …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) is a framework to explore the tradeoffs
amongst fishing strategies and assess the consequences for achieving management goals …

Ten years of modeling the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

CH Ainsworth, EP Chassignet, D French-McCay… - … Modelling & Software, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico Research
Initiative (GOMRI) has studied the oil spill from the perspectives of ocean environment …

Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill evaluated using an end-to-end ecosystem model

CH Ainsworth, CB Paris, N Perlin, LN Dornberger… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
We use a spatially explicit biogeochemical end-to-end ecosystem model, Atlantis, to
simulate impacts from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and subsequent recovery of fish …

Management strategy evaluation: allowing the light on the hill to illuminate more than one species

IC Kaplan, SK Gaichas, CC Stawitz… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Management strategy evaluation (MSE) is a simulation approach that serves as a “light on
the hill” to test options for marine management, monitoring, and assessment against …

Effects of Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms on fish community structure on the West Florida Shelf

AMG DiLeone, CH Ainsworth - Ecological Modelling, 2019 - Elsevier
Blooms of the Karenia brevis dinoflagellate can create devastating effects on marine
communities off the west coast of Florida when they release a suite of neurotoxins known as …

Spatio‐temporal analyses of marine predator diets from data‐rich and data‐limited systems

A Grüss, JT Thorson, G Carroll, EL Ng… - Fish and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Accounting for variation in prey mortality and predator metabolic potential arising from
spatial variation in consumption is an important task in ecology and resource management …

An Atlantis ecosystem model for the Gulf of Mexico supporting integrated ecosystem assessment

CH Ainsworth, MJ Schirripa, HN Morzaria-Luna - 2015 - repository.library.noaa.gov
Executive summary The Gulf of Mexico supports a high biological diversity and biomass of
fish, seabirds, and mammals; in this region, multiple commercial and recreational fishing …

Progress towards a next-generation fisheries ecosystem model for the northern Gulf of Mexico

SR Sagarese, MV Lauretta, JF Walter III - Ecological Modelling, 2017 - Elsevier
Catastrophic disturbances to marine environments, such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
in the northern Gulf of Mexico (GoM), emphasize the need to approach fisheries …

Ecosystem modeling in the Gulf of Mexico: current status and future needs to address ecosystem-based fisheries management and restoration activities

H O'Farrell, A Grüss, SR Sagarese, EA Babcock… - Reviews in fish biology …, 2017 - Springer
Many ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) measures and restoration projects
have been implemented to address the stressors that have negatively affected the United …

Quantifying the trophic importance of Gulf menhaden within the northern Gulf of Mexico ecosystem

SR Sagarese, MA Nuttall, TM Geers… - Marine and Coastal …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Gulf Menhaden Brevoortia patronus is frequently cited as playing a
predominant role in the trophic structure and function of the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) …