Letter: Taking Stock of Cod Stock Assessments
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Telegram] LETTER - May 22, 2017
Dr. Noel Cadigan is a quantitative fisheries scientist specializing in statistical methods for fish stock assessment and sustainable fisheries. He is a member in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Memorial University.
In a Telegram letter published May 6, (“Perfectly good fisheries data being ignored,” http://bit.ly/2rqzoLy) Harvey Jarvis criticized the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ assessments of northern cod and 3Ps (i.e. south coast) cod.
Based on my 20-plus years of experience with stock assessments in Newfoundland and Labrador and other regions (Canada, the U.S., and Europe), I think Jarvis is absolutely correct about the 3Ps cod assessment, but he is incorrect about the new northern cod assessment...
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