ECOKNOWS WP6Progress Nov. 2011

Rainer FroeseCadiz, 23.11.2011

WP6 Objectives• Together with the Case Studies, do a literature

survey to complete data for these species. Extract and compile relevant data using FishBase.

• Process the extensive information available in ICES and FishBase such that it is freely available and ready for use in Bayesian fisheries assessment models.

• In FishBase and ICES databases, provide the possibility to store posterior probabilities, which can then be further used in future studies as priors.

WP6 PartnersParticipant number Participant short name Person-months per participant

1 UH 4

3 ICES 6

4 FIN 69

5 AUTH 18

6 CSIC 2

 

Total 99

WP6 Deliverables Delive rable Number

Deliverable Title Lead benefi ciary number

Estimated indicative person-months

Nature Dissemi nation level

Delivery date

D6.1Suitable databases in FishBase

4 11 O PU 9

D6.2Report on literature survey

4 11 R PU 18

D6.3Report on data analyzed

4 11 R PU 18

D6.4Software: Tool to calculate risks by life history parameters

4 23 O PU 26

D6.5New tool for web hierarchical S/R – life history parameters

4 31 O PU 32

D6.6MS on the application of the system to some case study species

4 12 R PU 34

D6.1 Suitable Databases in FishBase

Done:•Added fields for traditional measures of uncertainty: SD, SE, 95% CL•In tables for LWR, Growth, Mortality, Maturity, Fecundity, Spawning •Report submitted and acceptedhttp://fem.biosci.helsinki.fi/ecoknows/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=deliverable_6_1_report.pdf

D6.1 Suitable Databases in FishBase

Ongoing:•Discussed with Samu and others options for storing density distributions•Solution: new sub-tables which can store an unlimited number of slices of a distribution•To be tested in December, implemented if found satisfactory

D6.2-3 Literature Survey and Report

Done•FIN and AUTH did literature surveys for case study species•Report on survey submitted by AUTHhttp://fem.biosci.helsinki.fi/ecoknows/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=voulareport.doc

Ongoing•Receive missing studies from CS groups•Data entry of the studies found (several hundred)•Report on data entry and analysis, due M18

D6.4-5 Webtools for Priors and Posteriors (M26 and M32)

Soon•Option to download traditional stats per species•Option to download ‚sliced‘ density distributionsLater•Option to upload ‚sliced‘ density distributions

Related Work

• Unique stock identifers have been entered in FishBase for ICES stocks

• Assigning various studies to stocks is ongoing, with challenges

• New tables for accepting size-at-age data (and other primary data) are being created (length-frequencies do already exist)

• Collaboration with RAM-legacy database is ongoing

Related Work

• New method for deriving MSY from catch data only, for data-poor stocks, is being developed, with Steve Martell

• Could be made available online, as a web tool• Harvest-control rules for Catch & MSY stocks

need to be developed and tested