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Experimental estimation of snow crab catchability by the eastern Bering Sea bottom trawl survey

Experimental estimation of snow crab catchability by the eastern Bering Sea bottom trawl survey. David Somerton RACE Groundfish Assessment Program Alaska Fisheries Science Center. Definition of terms. Sampling efficiency = sampled density / true density

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Experimental estimation of snow crab catchability by the eastern Bering Sea bottom trawl survey

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  1. Experimental estimation of snow crab catchabilityby the eastern Bering Sea bottom trawl survey David Somerton RACE Groundfish Assessment Program Alaska Fisheries Science Center

  2. Definition of terms • Sampling efficiency = sampled density / true density • Catchability = survey estimated pop / true pop • Q = max value of catchability

  3. Sampling efficiency experiments

  4. Sampling efficiency experiments

  5. Example: Bering sea snow crab

  6. EBS bottom trawl survey

  7. 1998 Bottom Trawl Efficiency Study

  8. Experimental area

  9. 1. Subsequent trawl research using a bottom contact sensor showed footrope clearance increased in deep water and on a muddier bottom 2. Crab fisher organizations banded together to form the Bering Sea Fisheries Research Foundation to support crab stock assessment research. 3. Developed their own crab survey using a special purpose crab trawl.

  10. 2010 SurveyTrawl Efficiency Study

  11. Completed 92 side by side stations • Modeled trawl efficiency as smooth functions of width, depth, sediment

  12. Conclusions • Survey catchability is likely to not be a logistic function of size. • Need to explore how to represent more complex shapes in SS models. • It is likely possible to estimate survey catchability for most survey gears that sample a measurable volume

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