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Rainer Froese. Photo by the Blue Marine Foundation, Facebook.
By Rainer Froese
I thought the background story of our recent publication ‘New developments in the analysis of catch time series as the basis for fish stock assessments: The CMSY++ method‘ may be of interest to young scientists.