One of the main objectives of fisheries management is to ensure the sustainability of fished stocks. To reach this objective scientists have to adequately assess the status of fished populations with quantitative models of the fishery systems. Most of these models require estimates of population...

This project has been highly successful at determining factors that affect the outputs and outcomes of the model and the uncertainty underlying the model system. The report has been divided into seven broad sections and two Appendices. The first chapter contains the context of the work;...