This five-day course explores close-kin mark-recapture (CKMR) for target and bycatch species. CKMR, made possible by advances in genetics within the last decade, is a modern technique for directly estimating absolute abundance and mortality rates. It needs only tissue samples and measurements from catches (though other data can be added too) and is thus able to bypass the toughest data challenges in fisheries.
This course presents CKMR in a stock-assessment setting, as well as for stand-alone use. Instruction is mainly aimed at modellers and statisticians who could, in principle, write their own code for basic age-structured stock-assessment. However, the main focus is on concepts, and there is no need to write or even run code.
The main aspects will be:
- Scope and principles of CKMR
- CKMR for various scenarios, some easy, some tricky, some impossible: concepts through to code
- Selected case studies (from tuna, sharks, seals, halibut ...)
- Key aspects of genetics and kin-finding (but note this is not a genetics course)
- Design of CKMR projects: qualitative and quantitative aspects
This update of the 2022 course includes full RTMB code for the scenarios, more on Design, and an updated Genetics section.
Registration is now open. Deadline for registration 11 June.
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