Tagged tuna graphic by Nancy Hulbirt, SOEST Illustration.

PFRP Statistical and Modeling Projects

Description of project activities, progress reports and contact information. Newer projects are listed first.

Analyses of Catch Data for Blue and Striped Marlins (Istiophoridae)
  • PI: William A. Walsh and Jon Brodziak
  • Project status: Project funds expended, FY 2012 progress report updated posted.
Integrating Electronic and Conventional Tagging Data into Modern Stock Assessment Models
  • PI: Simon Nicol, Mark Maunder, and Pierre Kleiber
  • Project status: Project funds expended, FY 2012 progress report posted.
Biological, Economic, and Management Drivers of Fishery Performance: A Global Meta-Analysis of Tuna and Billfish Stocks
  • PI: Trevor Branch, Ray Hilborn, and Olaf Jensen
  • Project status: Project funds expended, FY 2012 progress report posted.
Improved Effectiveness of WCPFC through Better Informed Fishery Decision Makers
  • PI: Simon Hoyle, Shelton Harley, and Fabrice Bouye
  • Project status: Project funds expended, FY 2012 progress report posted.
Combining Individual and Population Based Estimation of Migration Patterns
  • PI: Anders Nielsen and John Sibert
  • Project status: Funding estimated to be available mid-2006.
Rescue, Compilation, and Statistical Characterization of Historic Longline Data, Pacific Ocean Fisheries Investigation 1951-73
  • PI: Bert Kikkawa
  • Project status: Project completed, FY 2010 progress report posted.
Performance of Longline Catchability Models in Assessments of Pacific Highly Migratory Species
  • PI: Keith Bigelow, Mark Maunder, Adam Langley, and Pascal Bach
  • Project status: Project funds expended, manuscripts in preparation, FY 2010 progress report posted.
Investigation of Shark Bycatch in the Hawaii-based Longline Fishery, and an Extension of Analyses of Catch Data from Widely Separated Areas in the Pacific Ocean
  • PI: William A. Walsh and Keith Bigelow
  • Project status: Project funds expended, CPUE standardizations to be continued and manuscript in preparation, FY 2010 progress report posted.
Evaluation of Data Quality for Catches of Several Pelagic Management Unit Species by Hawaii-Based Longline Vessels and Exploratory Analyses of Historical Catch Records from Japanese Longline Vessels
  • PI: William A. Walsh and Keith Bigelow
  • Project status: Project completed, FY 2007 final progress report posted, NOAA Technical Memo. published.
Addition of Multi-species Capability, Sex Structure and other Enhancements to the Length-Based, Age-Structured Modeling Software MULTIFAN-CL
  • PI: John Hampton, Pierre Kleiber and John Sibert
  • Project status: Project completed, FY 2006 progress report posted.
Mixed-Resolution Models for Investigating Individual to Population Scale Spatial Dynamics
  • PI: Patrick Lehodey, Jeffrey Polovina, David Kirby and Raghu Murtugudde
  • Project status: Project completed, FY 2006 progress report posted.
Comparisons of Catch Rates for Target and Incidentally Taken Fishes in Widely Separated Areas of the Pacific Ocean
  • PI: William A. Walsh
  • Project status: Project completed, FY 2005 progress report posted.
Causes of Rapid Declines in World Billfish Catch Rates
  • PI: Ransom Myers and Peter Ward
  • Project status: Project completed, FY 2004 progress report posted.
Incorporating Oceanographic Data in Stock Assessments of Blue Sharks and Other Species Incidentally Caught in the Hawai'i-based Longline Fishery
  • PI: Pierre Kleiber and Hideki Nakano
  • Project status: Project completed, FY 2007 progress report posted.
Pacific-Wide Analysis of Bigeye Tuna (Thunnus obesus) using a Length-Based, Age Structured Modeling Framework (MULTIFAN-CL)
  • PI: John Hampton, Richard Deriso and Naozumi Miyabe
  • Project status: Project completed, FY 2000 progress report posted. Report of the MULTIFAN-CL Workshop (Feb. 1-3, 2000, Honolulu) posted (PDF file from SPC-OFP web site). See also the MULTIFAN-CL web site
Stock and Fishery Dynamics of Yellowfin Tuna, Thunnus albacares, in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean: Development of an Integrated Model Incorporating Size and Spatial Structure
  • PI: John Hampton and David Fournier
  • Project status: Project completed, manuscript posted (PDF file), updated assessment report - SPC Working Paper posted (PDF file from SPC-OFP web site).
Estimation of Bycatch and Discards of Sharks and Other Species by the Hawaii Longline Fishery
  • PI: Pierre Kleiber, Chris Boggs, William Walsh
  • Project status: Project completed, FY 2001 progress report posted.
Integrative Modeling in Support of the Pelagic Fisheries Research Program: Spatially Disaggregated Population Dynamics Models for Pelagic Fisheries (PFRP Modeling)
  • PI: John Sibert, Peter Bills, and Kevin Weng
  • Project status: SOEST-JIMAR technical report published, PFRP modeling work to be continued, FY 2012 progress report posted.
Local Pelagic Catch and Effort Data Analysis and Integrated Modeling to Quantify the Effects of Local Fisheries on Fish Availability
  • PI: Chris Boggs
  • Project status: Project completed, article published in NOAA Technical Memorandum, FY 1997 progress report posted.
Development of Assessment Model for Yellowfin Tuna
  • PI: John Sibert
  • Project status: Project completed, Workshop proceedings printed.
Integration of Hawaii Longline Fishery Performance Models with Environmental Information
  • PI: Chris Boggs
  • Project status: Project completed, article published in Fisheries Oceanography, FY 1997 progress report posted.

 

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