FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Standardizing blue ling landings per unit effort from industry haul-by-haul data using generalized additive models BT AF LORANCE, Pascal PAWLOWSKI, Lionel TRENKEL, Verena AS 1:1;2:;3:1; FF 1:PDG-DOP-DCN-EMH;2:PDG-DOP-DCB-STH-LBH;3:PDG-DOP-DCN-EMH; C1 IFREMER, F-44311 Nantes 03, France. C2 IFREMER, FRANCE SI NANTES LORIENT SE PDG-DOP-DCN-EMH PDG-DOP-DCB-STH-LBH IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 IF 1.808 TC 15 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00016/12713/9647.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;abundance indices;fishing strategy;GAM;Molva dypterygia;tallybook AB Haul-by-haul data derived from skippers' personal logbooks, from the French deep-water fishery to the west of the British Isles, were used to calculate standardized blue ling (Molva dypterygia) landings per unit effort (lpue) for the period 2000-2008. Lpue values were estimated using generalized additive models with depth, vessel, statistical rectangle, area, and year as explanatory variables. Because of their statistical distribution, landings were modelled by a Tweedie distribution, which allows datasets to contain many zeros. To investigate how to track stock trends reliably, lpue values were estimated in five areas for different subsets of the data. The subsets consisted of hauls during the spawning season (when blue ling aggregate), outside the spawning season, and hauls in which blue ling was only a bycatch. The results suggest that blue ling lpue values have been stable over the period 2000-2008, and that the declining trend previously observed for the stock has been halted. This finding is consistent with stable mean lengths in the landings during the same period. The study demonstrates the greater suitability of haul-by-haul data than EC logbook data for deriving abundance indices for deep-water stocks. PY 2010 PD NOV SO Ices Journal Of Marine Science SN 1054-3139 PU Oxford Univ Press VL 67 IS 8 UT 000283121900012 BP 1650 EP 1658 DI 10.1093/icesjms/fsq048 ID 12713 ER EF