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Evaluation Of The Use Of Segmented Regression Through Simulation For A Characterisation Of The North Sea Cod (Gadus Morhua L.) Stock, In Order To Determine The Properties Of Blim (The Biomass At Which Recruitment Is Impaired)
conference contribution
posted on 2024-03-22, 10:44 authored by C.M. O'brien, L.T. Kell, M.T. SmithNo abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.
A new objective technique to determine the level of biomass (Blim) at which recruitment is impaired based upon a segmented (or piecewise linear) regression has previously been proposed and developed by O’Brien & Maxwell. The formal statistical details of the approach are presented; together with hypothesis tests and goodness-of-fit statistics, and the approach evaluated for a characterisation of the North Sea cod (Gadus morhua L.) stock. This paper computes the values of Blim obtained by segmented regression for a simulated stock based upon North Sea cod. The properties of the estimators are explored for a variety of hypotheses about stock dynamics (e.g. stock-recruitment) and data quality (e.g. discarding and mis-reporting). In particular, the robustness of the method to underlying assumptions is evaluated.