title: The estimation of potential yield and stock status using life-history parameters.
abstract: Using life-history invariants, this paper develops techniques that allow the estimation of maximum sustainable yield and the fishing mortality rate that produces the maximum yield from estimates of the growth parameters, the length at first capture and the steepness of the stock recruitment relationship. This allows sustainable yields and fishing capacity to be estimated from sparse data, such as those available for developing country fisheries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Imperial College London, London SW7 1NA, UK. j.beddington@imperial.ac.uk
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Beddington
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Kirkwood
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D003906:Developing Countries; D017753:Ecosystem; D005398:Fisheries / Q000379:methods*; D005399:Fishes / Q000502:physiology*; D005523:Food Supply; D008954:Models, Biological; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D011157:Population Dynamics