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top20(MSY): add rationale
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part of #17 where decisions need to be made about subscripts
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kellijohnson-NOAA committed Mar 8, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -40,13 +40,12 @@ Rationale: Many models use the term index for a survey and CPUE for fishery-depe
Alternatives: catch rate, index of abundance, standardized fishery catch time series
Range of possible values: 0--Inf
Units:
Rationale:
Alternatives: MSYproxy
Range of possible values:
Units: biomass/metric tons or numbers
Instantaneous mortality rate (Z): Z is probably the most universally used notation for a given parameter across all disciplines for models that include mortality, how did we agree on this and when?
Examples:
Rationale:
Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY): A maximum level of yield that can be continuously taken from an exploited stock without long-term depletion under average environmental conditions. It can be defined given biological parameters (e.g., natural mortality and stock productivity) or using proxies (e.g., the maximum yield at 40% of unfished biomass). Units depend on units of catches.
Examples:
Rationale: Many management frameworks are based on calculations of MSY despite difficulty in its estimation. Metrics such as fishing rate at MSY should be abbreviated using all upper case letters but this is not common practice as of yet. For example, sometimes you will see F_msy or some derivative thereof.
Alternatives: msy, MSYproxy
Range of possible values: 0--Inf
Units: mt, numbers
Alternatives:
Range of possible values: lower bound of 0
Units: mortality per year (yr-1)
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