Download FAR 2022/19 Low information fisheries stock status assessment 2021

To develop an assessment approach using spatially explicit catch, abundance, and harvest rate estimates for inshore finfish stocks, spatial patterns of relative density were estimated fitting research vessel survey data to environmental covariates using Generalised Additive Models for nine species. The density estimates were converted to absolute abundance using estimates of research survey catching efficiency. In addition, the eSAFE method used the relative density estimates directly.