Monday, July 13

MS4
Fisheries

10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Room: Sidney Smith 1087

The world's fish stocks have been subject to tremendous overexploitation, and the problem of how to apportion fish stocks between nations has recently led to the "Turbot War" between Canada and the European Union. This session will examine how a variety of mathematical methods can help resolve these problems. The papers in this session will explore the application of game-theoretic models to the resolution of disputes over the apportioning of fish stocks, will model extinction by overharvesting, will apply Bayesian state space models, and will help to clarify the biological basis of variability in fish populations.

10:30 Fisheries Treaties or Fish Wars: Insights from the Theory of Games

Robert McKelvey, University of Montana

11:00 Bayesian State-space Modeling of Fish Populations

Russell B. Millar and Renate Mayer, University of Auckland, New Zealand

11:30 Process and Pattern in Recruitment Variability

Michael J. Fogarty, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

12:00 Models of Overexploitation and Extinction of Pacific Salmon

Ransom A. Myers, Organizer