Publication Abstract

Report of a private working group

N. Daan, J.G. Pope, H. Gislason and J. Rice

We address the issue of wedding fisheries management to ecosystem management and in particular put forward ideas about the construction of neutral models for investigating community assembly rules and testing ecological hypotheses. To build a statistical model that mimics the North Sea fish community, we derived distributions of relevant parameters such as k-dominance curves, maximum length, in abundance and species richness from survey data. In addition, an old idea of using MSVPA and MSFOR results to fit Multispecies Schaeffer Models was elaborated.

Reference:

N. Daan, J.G. Pope, H. Gislason and J. Rice, 2001. Report of a private working group. ICES CM 2001/T:05. 27pp.