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A method to estimate the stock recruitment relationship of shrimps
Type: Journal Article
A procedure is proposed by which recruit numbers and parental biomass of shrimps stocks can be derived, given a series of catch per effort data and estimates of a few ancillary variables. In the Gulf of Thailand, shrimp ...
A selection of simple methods for the assessment of tropical fish stocks
Type: Report
This selection of methods is based on lecture notes used at a FAO/DANIDA training course held in Mombasa, Kenya, in May-June 1980. The methods presented are: regression and correlation, estimation of growth parameters from ...
A guide to ECOPATH II software system (version 2.0)
Type: Manual
This guide documents the use and background of the ECOPATH II software system written for MS DOS computers for straightforward construction and parametrization of steady-state trophic models of aquatic ecosystems. ECOPATH ...
Diet composition and trophic levels of marine mammals
Type: Journal Article
Standardized diet compositions were derived for 97 species of marine mammals from published accounts of stomach contents as well as from morphological, behavioural and other information. Diet was apportioned among eight ...
Announcing the release of FishBase 96
Type: Journal Article
FishBase is a computerized encyclopedia of fishes developed at International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) with the support of the European Commission and in collaboration with a large number of ...
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 ...
User's manual for the fish population dynamics plug-in module for HPC41CV calculators
Type: Manual
The mode of operation and contents of a custom-made plug-in memory device for Hewlett-Packard HP41CV calculators (or HP41C with Quad Memory Module) are briefly presented. The module contains 15 of the 30 programs for fish ...
Atlas demographique des populations de poissons d'eau douce d'Afrique
Type: Report
Growth and catch curves plus recruitment and selection patterns of 57 stocks and 47 species of African freshwater fishes are presented. The atlas also includes mortality estimates, information on food and feeding habits, ...
Growth of the checkered puffer Sphoeroides testudineus: postscript to papers by Target and Pauly Ingles
Type: Journal Article
J. Ingles and D. Pauly presented at the Fourth International Coral Reef Symposium a seasonally oscillating growth curve for the puffer Sphoeroides testudineus (Tetraodontidae), based on length-frequency data collected in ...
Measuring ecological stress: variations on a theme by R.M. Warwick
Type: Journal Article
Two new indices are presented which reflect quantitatively the changes to be expected in an ecological community under stress, as previously described by R. M. Warwick. The indices summarize information which he presented ...