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The east Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna stock management: uncertainties and alternatives
Fromentin, J.-M. (2003). The east Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna stock management: uncertainties and alternatives. Sci. Mar. (Barc.) 67(S1): 51-62. https://dx.doi.org/10.3989/scimar.2003.67s151
In: Scientia Marina (Barcelona). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Institut de Ciènces del Mar: Barcelona. ISSN 0214-8358; e-ISSN 1886-8134, more
Also appears in:
Ulltang, Ø.; Blom, G. (2003). Fish stock assessments and predictions: integrating relevant knowledge. SAP Symposium held in Bergen, Norway 4-6 December 2000. Scientia Marina (Barcelona), 67(S1). Institut de Ciències de Mar: Barcelona. 374 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.3989/scimar.2003.67s1, more
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Keywords
    Catchability
    Data > Fishery data > Fishing effort
    Models
    Population functions > Growth
    Simulation
    Spatial variations
    Stock assessment
    Temporal variations
    Variability
    AE, East Atlantic [Marine Regions]; Mediterranean [Marine Regions]
    Marine/Coastal

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  • Fromentin, J.-M.

Abstract
    Although the Atlantic bluefin tuna has been studied for more than a century, the assessment of the East stock is characterised by a large amount of uncertainty. In 2000, this situation became so critical that quantitative stock assessment has been postponed. The first part of the present study aims to list the main difficulties that have led to the current situation and tries to discern between subjective and objective uncertainty. The former, which is due to an incomplete knowledge of the system and which has increased in the past few years, is mainly due to a decreasing quality of the catch and effort data, that has followed the establishment of a TAC. The latter source of uncertainty, which results from the underlying variability in stochastic processes, mainly relates, for this species, to spatial and temporal changes in stock size, growth and migration. The second part of this study presents the results of simulation modelling, which could be, in the meantime, an useful tool for short-term management of the East Atlantic and Mediterranean BFT stock.

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