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Length-converted catch curves: a powerful tool for fisheries research in the Tropics (part 2)
Type: Journal Article
A method is described for the determination of the selection curve of fishing gear from the shape of the ascending arm of a length-converted catch curve and growth parameters.
Fishery statistics on the microcomputer: a BASIC version of Hasselblad's NORMSTEP program
Type: Journal Article
This paper provides an outline of a mathematical method to analyse overlapping normal distributions. Separations of mixtures of normal distributions is frequently required in fisheries biological analysis, as in the case ...
The climate and eastern ocean systems project
Type: Journal Article
A brief description of the NMFS/ORSTOM/ILCARM climate and Eastern Ocean systems (CEOS) project is given. CEOS will study the four major eastern boundary current regions (Peru/Chile, California, Northwest and Southwest ...
ICLARM's activities in tropical stock assessment: 1979-1984, and beyond
Type: Journal Article
In March 1977, shortly after ICLARM commenced in Manila, its Program Advisory Committee formulated the guiding principles for the Resource Development and Management Program, which is one of the four program areas of ICLARM ...
A new approach for analyzing and comparing coastal resource systems
Type: Journal Article
ICLARM has recently developed a strategic Plan for International research on living aquatic resources management which identifies tropical coastal resource systems as one of its areas of research emphasis. Details are given ...
On microcomputers vs. thinking and their respective roles in fisheries research in developing countries
Type: Journal Article
A discussion is presented on the topic of microcomputers and fishery research in developing countries, consideringin particular the advantages of the use of computers for data storage and examination as compared to ...
The Peruvian anchoveta, Charles Darwin and us
Type: Journal Article
The last decade has seen and rightly so a boom of Darwiniana, culminating in 1991, in a fascinating new biography by A. Desmond and J. Moore.' Indeed, "spicing up" one's writing with references to Charles Darwin seems one ...
ICLARM's Resource Development and Management Program: the Tropical Stock Assessment Research Project
Type: Journal Article
The project was conceived to identify and overcome the major constraints preventing the development of stock assessment techniques appropriate to tropical stocks. These constraints are listed and the project's programme of ...
Length-converted catch curves: a powerful tool for fisheries research in the Tropics (part 1)
Type: Journal Article
A number of methods are available with the help of which total mortality (Z) can be estimated from length-frequency data. Thus it is possible to obtain reasonable estimates of Z from the mean length in a representative ...
Fisheries and aquaculture research capabilities and needs in Africa: studies of Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Mauritania, Morocco, and Senegal
Type: Journal Article
This Technical Report contains the results of 2 missions. One mission deals with the state of fisheries andaquaculture research as well as research needs in 4 countries in Southeastern Africa: Kenya, Malawi,Mozambique an ...