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S-SES Model

Blue Matter worked with the BC Freshwater Fisheries Society to update the landscape model (S-SES) that integrates social and biological information associated with small lakes fisheries in BC.

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Atlantic Skipjack Tuna

To support management strategy evaluation of the Western Atlantic stock of Skipjack Tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis), Blue Matter collaborated with colleagues in Brazil to develop a set of operating models to facilitate testing of defensible management procedures using the open-source MSEtool software package.

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Retrospective Patterns

Got a retrospective pattern in a stock assessment but not sure of the cause? Closed-loop simulation can allow us to determine whether management procedures can sufficiently help reach conservation and fishery objectives in spite of such behavior in an assessment, and identify which of the possible causes actually impact management performance.

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