2019-06-282019-06-281981ICLARM Newsletter 4 (3): 10-13https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/3640Fishery biology, particularly the applied aspect of stock assessment, became a truly quantitative science in the mid-1950s, when the Beverton & Holt and Schaefer "workhorse" models for stock assessment were produced. The relatively low prices of microcomputers and the ease in handling them are major reasons why they could become widely used for tropical stock assessmentapplication/pdfCC BY 4.0Journal Article