Incorporating spatiotemporal variability in multispecies survey design optimization addresses trade-offs in uncertainty

• Published in: ICES journal of marine science Vol. 78; no. 4; pp. 1288 - 1300
• Main Authors: Oyafuso, Zack S, Barnett, Lewis A K, Kotwicki, Stan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 01.08.2021
• Subjects: genetic algorithm; bottom-trawl survey; survey optimization; Gulf of Alaska; stratified random sampling

Abstract In designing and performing surveys of animal abundance, monitoring programs often struggle to determine the sampling intensity and design required to achieve their objectives, and this problem greatly increases in complexity for multispecies surveys with inherent trade-offs among species....