Year:
2020
Journal/Publisher Name:
Fisheries Research
Publisher Address:
Elsevier Publishing
Elsevier B.V. Registered Office:
Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
Volume (Issue #):
Volume 225
Contact information:
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Regional Office
alex.curtis@noaa.gov
Summary:
A software tool was developed to assess observer coverage with respect to several objectives for documenting or estimating rare-event bycatch. The ObsCovgTool predicts observer coverage performance for a given total fishery effort in relation to three metrics: (1) the conditional probability of observing any bycatch given that bycatch occurred in the fishery and the probability of any bycatch in the total fishery effort, (2) the upper confidence limit for total bycatch when none is observed, and (3) precision (coefficient of variation) of the bycatch estimate.