Evaluation of the effects of mixing in swordfish populations in the N and S Atlantic on the stock assessment predictions

Description

To work with scientists from the US National Marine Fisheries Service to evaluate the potential level of bias in stock assessment predictions for swordfish in the North and South Atlantic under different assumptions for stock mixing. Contribution to the 2006 ICCAT swordfish stock identification meeting (contribution of the US delegation)

Services

Cefas has undertaken several of these independent reviews of fisheries in the USA. For this particular evaluation we provided:

• Simulation modelling,
• evaluation of stock assessment tools,
• report writing.