A question that has been raised is whether the rapid decline in the sardine abundance after 2002 can be
attributed either in part or in full to the relatively large sardine catches in the early part of this decade. One way
to consider this question is to compare the projected sardine biomass under the base case sardine assessment,
which was fit to the observed catch and survey data from 1984 to 2006 to the predictions from an identical
model had there been zero sardine catch from 2000 to 2006.
Reference:
de Moor, C. L., & Butterworth, D. S. (2009). Did high directed sardine TACs cause the rapid decline in sardine abundance. MARAM: University of Cape Town.
De Moor, C. L., & Butterworth, D. S. (2009). Did high directed sardine TACs cause the rapid decline in sardine abundance University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Marine Resource Assessment and Management Group. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18728
De Moor, Carryn L, and Doug S Butterworth Did high directed sardine TACs cause the rapid decline in sardine abundance. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Marine Resource Assessment and Management Group, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18728
De Moor CL, Butterworth DS. Did high directed sardine TACs cause the rapid decline in sardine abundance. 2009 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18728
