Author:Somhlaba, S; Brandão, Anabela; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2005Interactions between the presence of an observer and month are investigated for both
anchovy and sardine fisheries. The aim is to ascertain whether the effect of the presence
of an observer still remains significant after these interactions ...Read more
Author:Somhlaba, S; Brandão, Anabela; Plagányi, Éva E; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2006Earlier GLM analyses of catch per hour data for sardine and anchovy to determine
observer effects have suggested statistically significant increases in this catch rate
with observers on the vessels over January-to June for the sardine ...Read more
Author:Somhlaba, S; Brandão, Anabela; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2005The analysis of the observer data for the pelagic fishery is taken further for the
complete data base from 1999 to 2004. Previously the analysis had been based on
steel vessels (Somhlaba et al., 2005); those findings showed that there ...Read more
Author:Somhlaba, S; Brandão, Anabela; Butterworth, Doug S; van der Westhuizen, JDate:2014A detailed update of the study of the data collected by scientific observers onboard the pelagic vessels is currently underway. The use of small pelagic commercial data base and an observer data base to investigate the effect of observers ...Read more
Author:Somhlaba, S; Brandão, Anabela; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2005This is a revised report on pelagic data analyses which aim to quantify the amount of
dumping, or confirm the absence thereof, that is happening in pelagic fisheries. This
study includes the analyses of anchovy data which was not included ...Read more