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Virtual population analysis

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Title Virtual population analysis
 
Creator Bharti, Vivekanand
 
Subject Analytical models
 
Description Virtual population analysis (VPA) is a modeling technique commonly used in fisheries science
for reconstructing the historical population structure of a fish stock using information on
the deaths of individuals in each time step. The time steps are typically annual (though not
necessarily) and the deaths are usually partitioned into mortality due to fishing and natural
mortality. VPA therefore looks at a population in an historic perspective. The advantage
of doing a VPA is that once the history is known it becomes easier to predict the future
catches, which is usually one of the most important tasks of fishery scientists. Virtual
population analysis calculates the number of fish alive in each cohort for each past year.
It is also called cohort analysis because each cohort is analysed separately. VPA relies on
a very simple relationship for each cohort. VPA or Cohort analysis was first developed as
age-based methods in temperate regions further developed as length-based methods for
tropical regions.
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Date 2017
 
Type Book Section
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/12181/1/20-Virtual%20population%20analysis.pdf
Bharti, Vivekanand (2017) Virtual population analysis. In: Course Manual Summer School on Advanced Methods for Fish Stock Assessment and Fisheries Management. Lecture Note Series No. 2/2017 . CMFRI; Kochi, Kochi, pp. 232-237.