Model-based Relative Abundance Indices for the Main Hawaiian Islands Deep 7 Bottomfish Complex, 2016– 2022
February 10, 2025
A first attempt at developing a model-based index of relative abundance for main Hawaiian Islands Deep 7 from Bottomfish Fishery-Independent Survey data.
The main Hawaiian Islands (MHI) Deep 7 bottomfish complex (Deep 7) is a group of commercially and culturally important deep-water species comprised of six snappers. The NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) is responsible for routinely assessing the stock status of the Deep 7, and they have developed the Bottomfish Fishery-Independent Survey in Hawaiʻi (BFISH). This analysis represented a first attempt at developing a model-based index of relative abundance for MHI Deep 7 from BFISH data.
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Ducharme-Barth ND 2025. Model-based relative abundance indices for the main Hawaiian Islands Deep 7 Bottomfish Complex, 2016-2022 U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NOAA-TM-NMFS-PIFSC-172, 89 p.https://doi.org/10.25923/p2zx-hv16