What is stock assessment?

Nicholas Fisch, Angela Collins, and Edward V. Camp

Release Date: 5/3/2021

Reviewed At: 5/6/2024

Natural Resources

Abstract

Whether you’re an angler, diver, conservationist, or just interested in fisheries, you’ve likely heard the term “stock assessment” before. What are stock assessments? How do they work? How do they inform management decisions? This publication provides information to the public and people serving in natural resource management agencies and working in outreach and Extension to show how fisheries management decisions are made.

About this Publication

This document is FA232, one of a series of the School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date April 2021. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.

About the Authors

Nicholas Fisch, PhD candidate, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences; Angela Collins, UF/IFAS Extension Florida Sea Grant agent; and Edward V. Camp, assistant professor, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.

Authors

Angela Collins

Specialist

University of Florida

Extension assistant scientist, Ph.D., Florida Sea Grant and School of Forests, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, UF/IFAS Tropical Aquaculture Lab, Ruskin, FL

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Edward Camp

Contact

Specialist

University of Florida

associate professor, fisheries and aquaculture governance, UF/IFAS School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Gainesville FL

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