ICES Annual Science Conference 2021

Operationalising model ensembles to provide scientific advice for fisheries management​​

Share your experiences with stock assessment models!

​​There are uncertainties associated with every phase of the stock assessment process, ranging from the collection of data, assessment model choice and assumptions, interpretation of risk, and implementation of management advice. The dynamics of the modeled fish populations are very complex, and our incomplete understanding of those dynamics (and limited observations of important mechanisms) necessitate that our models are simpler than nature. The aim is for the model to capture enough of the dynamics to accurately estimate trends and abundance, and to provide advice to managers about sustainable harvest.

The status quo approach to assessment modeling has been to identify the 'best' model, based on diagnostics and model selection criteria, and to generate advice from that single model. This procedure essentially ignores advice from other model congurations regardless of how closely they performed relative to the 'best' model. The ensemble modeling paradigm proposes to more fully capture uncertainty in the assessment model selection and advice provision—but is this the case?

​This network session will summarize the status quo and ensemble modeling processes, highlighting the characterization of uncertainty in both assessments and forecasts, model performance metrics, and the practicalities of reviewing the assessment and providing management advice.

Participants in this network session are invited to share their assessment experience with uncertainties in their model structure, performance of their model over time, and sensitivities of management advice to model structure. Focused questions will lead participants through the important steps of the model ensemble process, and feedback about feasibility, and impacts on the review and advice aspect will be summarized.

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​​​Conveners:
Ernesto Jardim (Joint Research Centre - JRC)
Liz Brooks (USA)
Colin Millar (ICES)

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Operationalising model ensembles to provide scientific advice for fisheries management​​

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