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Article: Reports outline fisheries research study findings from A. Langley and colleagues.
- Article from:
- Ecology, Environment & Conservation
- Article date:
- October 23, 2009
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"Recruitment estimates for yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) in the western and central Pacific Ocean (WCPO), derived from a stock assessment model, are highly variable seasonally, interannually, and over decadal periods. A generalized linear model (GLM) was developed that predicts the variation in yellowfin tuna recruitment in response to a range of oceanographic variables," investigators in Noumea, New Caledonia report.
"The GLM model accounted for 54% of the variation in quarterly recruitment for the period 1980-2003, with the inclusion of seven different oceanographic variables derived from a zone within the northwestern equatorial region of the WCPO. The ...