Author:Vrancken, Candysse; Butterworth, DouglasDate:2017How to weight results from different OMs in getting a “best” representation across their differing results is a problem not only in fisheries but also in Climate Change. We attempt here to borrow an approach from the latter field and compare ...Read more
Author:Butterworth, Douglas; Brandao, Anabela; de Moor, Carryn; Robinson, WilliamDate:2010Pichegru et al. (2010), and a follow up comment by Ryan et al. (2010), make strongly stated claims that closures to pelagic fishing around islands with penguin breeding colonies lead to rapid improvements in those penguin populations. These ...Read more
Author:de Moor, Carryn; Coetzee, Janet; Butterworth, DouglasDate:2022Prior distributions for the bias of the hydro‐acoustic survey estimates of the biomass of the South African round herring are developed by considering the bias associated with the individual sources of errorRead more
Author:Coetzee, Janet; Butterworth, Douglas; van der Lingen, Carl; de Moor, CarrynDate:2016This paper summarises proposals on the many and varied issues that need to be addressed in reaching a decision on a possible increase in the maximum directed sardine catch that may be taken west of Cape Agulhas during 2016. It also includes ...Read more