David Fairclough

Jul 22, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Andrea Bertram |Justin Bell |Chris Brauer |David Fairclough

1 INTRODUCTION Interest in estimating the genetic effective population size of exploited marine fishes continues to grow as fisheries scientists and managers pay increasing attention to the genetic state of fish stocks (Hare et al., 2011; Marandel et al., 2019; Ovenden et al., 2015). The two genetic effective size parameters, Nb (effective number of breeders) and Ne (effective population size), are applicable in a fisheries management context (Hare et al., 2011).

Dec 18, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Andrea Bertram |Justin Bell |Chris Brauer |David Fairclough

AbstractObtaining reliable estimates of the effective number of breeders (Nb) and generational effective population size (Ne) for fishery-important species is challenging because they are often iteroparous and highly abundant, which can lead to bias and imprecision. However, recent advances in understanding of these parameters, as well as the development of bias correction methods, have improved the capacity to generate reliable estimates.