Bigelow, Keith

"The objective of the present study was to produce one standardized CPUE index per region for vessels targeting south Pacific albacore on a specific trip. Improvements to previous standardizations which included only distant-water fleets include: 1) all logsheet data south of the equator were used from all longline fleets, 2) trips targeting south Pacific albacore were identified by three alternative types of cluster analysis and 3) the GLMs considered a negative binomial distribution instead of the lognormal distribution"

Professional Paper

South Pacific Ocean

National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)