How do we develop sound fishery management models

How do we develop sound fishery management models?

James R. Bence

Associate Professor, Fisheries and Wildlife

Quantitative Fishery Ecology

I am a quantitative fishery ecologist with interests in fishery stock assessment and fishery management, the assessment of human perturbations on aquatic populations and communities, population dynamics and community interactions, and statistical methods used in ecological studies. I am a member of the PERM (Partnership for Ecosystem Research and Management) Unit, which was formed by joint agreement between the University and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. My research program concentrates on Great Lakes fish populations. My past research has encompassed recruitment processes in fish, empirical studies of freshwater fish and invertebrate populations, predator-prey interactions, population modeling, and statistical evaluation of methods used in fishery stock assessments, environmental impact assessments, and ecological time-series.

Selected Publications

Bence, J.R. and W.W. Murdoch. 1986. Prey size selection by the mosquitofish: Relation to optimal diet theory. Ecology 67:324-336.

Bence, J.R. 1988. Indirect effects and biological control of mosquitoes by mosquitofish. J. Appl. Ecol. 25:505-521.

Bence, J.R. and R.M. Nisbet. 1989. Space-limited recruitment in open systems: The importance of time-delays. Ecology 70:1434-1441.

Bence, J.R., A. Gordoa and J.E. Hightower. 1993. The influence of age-selective surveys on the reliability of stock synthesis assessments. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 50:827-840.

Bence, J.R. 1995. Analysis of short time-series: Correcting for autocorrelation. Ecology 76:628-639.

Hansen, M.J., J.R. Bence, J.W. Peck and W.W. Taylor. 1997. Evaluation of the relative importance of hatchery-reared and wild fish in the restoration of Lake Superior lake trout. In Developing and Sustaining World Fisheries Resources: The State of Science and Management, D.A. Hancock, D.C. Smith, A. Grant and J.P. Beumer (eds.), pp. 492-497. 2nd World Fisheries Congress proceedings. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, VIC, Australia.