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The Publication List at QFC 

All published works by QFC personnel representing efforts supported by the QFC are assigned contribution numbers and are listed below.

2006 2007 2008
 
 
2008
1 Deroba, J.J., and J.R. Bence.  In press.  Assessing model-based indices of lake trout abundance in 1836 Treaty waters of Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior. Research report prepared for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
2 Deroba, J.J., and J.R. Bence.  In press.  A review of harvest policies: understanding relative performance of control rules.  Fisheries Research.
3 Fenichel, E. P., J.I. Tsao, M. Jones, and G.J. Hickling. 2008.  Fish Pathogen Screening and Its Influence on the Likelihood of Accidental Pathogen Introduction during Fish Translocations. Journal of Aquatic Animal Health 20: 19-28.
4 He, J.X., J.R. Bence, J.J. Johnson, D.F. Clapp, and M.P. Ebener.  2008.  Modeling variation in mass-length relations and condition indices of lake trout and Chinook salmon in Lake Huron: a hierarchical Bayesian approach.  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 138:xxx.
5 Brenden, T.O., and J.R. Bence. 2008. Comment: use of piecewise regression models to estimate changing relationships in fisheries. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 28:xxxx.
6 Myers, J.T., J.D. Stockwell, D.L. Yule, and J.A. Black. 2008. Evaluating sampling strategies for larval cisco (Coregonus artedi). Journal of Great Lakes Research 34(2):xxx-xxx.
7 Treble, A. J., M. L. Jones, and T. B. Steeves. 2008. Development and evaluation of a new predictive model for metamorphosis of Great Lakes larval sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) populations. Journal of Great Lakes Research 34 (3):xxx-xxx.
8 Brenden, T.O., L. Wang, and Z. Su. 2008. Quantitative identification of disturbance thresholds in support of aquatic resource management.  Environmental Management.
9 Jones, M.L. and J.R. Bence. In press. Uncertainty and fishery management in the North American Great Lakes: lessons from applications of decision analysis.
10 Wagner, T. W., M.E. Benbow, T.O. Brenden, J. Qi, and R.C. Johnson. In press. Buruli ulcer disease prevalence in Benin , West Africa : associations with land use/cover and the identification of disease clusters. International Journal of Health Geographics.
11 Wilberg, M.J. and J.R. Bence. In press. Performance of deviance information criterion model selection in statistical catch-at-age analysis. Fisheries Research. (2008), doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2008.04.010.
12 Irwin, B.J., T.J. Treska, L.G. Rudstam, P.J. Sullivan, J.R. Jackson, A.J. VanDeValk, and J.L. Forney.  In press. Estimating walleye (Sander vitreus) density, gear catchability, and mortality using three fishery-independent data sets for Oneida Lake, New York. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
13 Jones, M. L., M. T. Arts, M. Faisal, M. P. Ebener, T. Wagner, T. O. Brenden, D. Honeyfield, and G. Wright.  2008.  Magnitude and potential causes of mortality in four lake whitefish populations in Lakes Michigan and Huron: a multidisciplinary approach. Great Lakes Fishery Trust Project Completion Report and QFC Technical Report T2008-01.
14 Jones, M. L., G. J. A. Hansen, W. Liu, B. Irwin, A. J. Treble, and H. A. Dawson.  2008.  Sea lamprey population dynamics: updating demographic models and application to a novel control strategy. Great Lakes Fishery Commission Project Completion Report and QFC Technical Report T2008-02.
15 Irwin, B.J., M.J. Wilberg, J.R. Bence, M.L. Jones. 2008. Specified input values for a stochastic simulation model for yellow perch in southern Lake Michigan. QFC Technical Report T2008-03.
16 Wilberg, M.J., B.J. Irwin, M.L. Jones, J.R. Bence. In press. Effects of source-sink dynamics on harvest policy performance for yellow perch in southern Lake Michigan. Fisheries Research.
17 Irwin, B.J., M.J. Wilberg, J.R. Bence, M.L. Jones. In press. Evaluating alternative harvest policies for yellow perch in southern Lake Michigan. Fisheries Research.
18 Hansen, G.J.A. and M.L. Jones. 2008. The value of information in fishery management. Fisheries 33: 340-348.
19 Brenden, T.O., T. Wagner, and B.R. Murphy. 2008. Novel tools for analyzing proportional size distribution index data. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 28 
20 Linton, B. and J.R. Bence. 2008. Evaluating methods for estimating process and observation error variances in statistical catch-at-age analysis. Fisheries Research 
2007
1 Peters, A.K., M.L. Jones, D.C. Honeyfield, and J.R. Bence. 2007. Monitoring energetic status of Lake Michigan Chinook salmon using water content as a predictor of whole-fish lipid content. Journal of Great Lakes Research 33: 253-263.
2 Wagner, T., J.R. Bence, M.T. Bremigan, D.B. Hayes, and M.J. Wilberg. 2007. Regional trends in fish mean length at age: components of variance and the power to detect trends. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64: 968-978.
3 Jones, M.L. 2007. Towards improved assessment of sea lamprey population dynamics in support of cost-effective sea lamprey management. Journal of Great Lakes Research 33 (Special Issue 2): 35-47.
4 Wagner, T., P.A. Soranno, K. Spence Cheruvelil, B. Renwick, K. Webster, P. Vaux, and R. Abbitt. 2008. Quantifying sample biases of inland lake sampling programs in relation to lake surface area and land use/cover. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 141(1-3): 131-147.
5 Haeseker, S.L, M.L. Jones, R.M. Peterman, J.R. Bence, W. Dai, and G.C. Christie. 2007. Explicit consideration of uncertainty in Great Lakes fisheries management: decision analysis of sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) control in the St. Marys River. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64: 1456-1468.
6 Jones,M.L. and J.M. Dettmers. 2007. Making wise decisions about transferring fish among lakes within the Great Lakes basin. Journal of Great Lakes Research 33: 930-934.
7 Brenden, T.O., L. Wang, P.W. Seelbach, R.D. Clark, Jr., M.J. Wiley, and B.L. Sparks-Jackson. In press.  A spatially constrained clustering program for river valley segment delineation from GIS digital river networks. Environmental Modelling and Software xx.
8 Wagner, T. W., M.E. Benbow, M. Burns, R.C. Johnson, R.W. Merritt, J. Qi, and P.L.C. Small. 2008.  A landscape-based model for predicting Mycobacterium ulcerans Infection (Buruli Ulcer Disease) presence in Benin, West Africa. EcoHealth 5(1): 69-79.
9  Fenichel, E.P., J.I. Tsao, M. Jones, and G. Hickling. 2008.  Real Options for Precautionary Fisheries Management. Fish and Fisheries 9(2):121-137.
10  Woldt, A.P., J.R. Bence, and M.P. Ebener. 2007. Recommendations and future directions to improve assessments, pages 17-22 in A.P.Woldt, and S.P. Sitar. (eds.). Technical Fisheries Committee Administrative Report 2006: Status of lake trout and lake whitefish populations in the 1836 treaty-ceded waters of Lakes Superior, Huron and Michigan in 2005, with recommended yield and effort levels for 2006. Also available at: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/2006-status-report_215230_7.pdf as of May 22, 2008.
11  Woldt, A.P., J.R. Bence, and M.P. Ebener. 2007. Executive Summary, pages 4-7 in A.P. Woldt, and S.P. Sitar. (eds.). Technical Fisheries Committee Administrative Report 2006: Status of lake trout and lake whitefish populations in the 1836 treaty-ceded waters of Lakes Superior, Huron and Michigan in 2005, with recommended yield and effort levels for 2006. Also available at: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/2006-status-report_215230_7.pdf as of May 22, 2008.
12  Sitar, S.P., J.R. Bence, and A.P. Woldt. 2007. Stock assessment models, pages 8-16 in Woldt, A.P., and Sitar, S.P. (eds.). Technical Fisheries Committee Administrative Report 2006: Status of lake trout and lake whitefish populations in the 1836 treaty-ceded waters of Lakes Superior, Huron and Michigan in 2005, with recommended yield and effort levels for 2006.  Also available at: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/2006-status-report_215230_7.pdf as of May 22, 2008.
13  Wagner, T. 2007. The statistical power to detect temporal trends in catch per unit effort from annual gillnet surveys for walleye in Lake Erie. Technical report prepared for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife, Lake Erie Fisheries Unit, Sandusky Fisheries Research Unit. QFC Technical Report T2007-01.
14  Wagner, T. 2007. The statistical power to detect temporal trends in catch per unit effort from annual gillnet surveys for walleye in Lake Erie. Supplement I. Technical report prepared for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife, Lake Erie Fisheries Unit, Sandusky Fisheries Research Unit.  QFC Technical Report T2007-02.

2006
1 Wilberg, M.J., and J.R. Bence. 2006. Performance of time-varying catchability estimators in statistical catch-at-age analysis. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63: 2275-2285.
2 Peacor, S.D., J.R. Bence, and C.A. Pfister. 2007. The effect of size-dependent growth and environmental factors on animal size variability. Theoretical Population Biology 71: 80-94.
3 He, X.J. and J.R. Bence. 2007. Modeling annual growth variation using a hierarchical Bayesian approach and the von Bertalanffy growth function, with application to lake trout in southern Lake Huron. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136: 318-330.
4 Bence, J.R.  2006.  Approaches to Weighting Data Components and Addressing Concerns about Density-Dependent Catchability for Lake Erie Percid Assessments. Quantitative Fisheries Center Technical Report T2006-01.
5 Fenichel, E., J.I. Tsao, M. Jones, and G.J. Hickling. 2006.  Managing Fish Translocation Risks Using Real Options: Sea lamprey pathogen screening as a case study.  GLFC 2006 Project Completion Report and QFC Technical Report T2006-02.
6 Woldt, A.P., S.P. Sitar, J.R. Bence, and M.P. Ebener. 2006. Summary Status of Lake Trout and Lake Whitefish Populations in the 1836 Treaty-Ceded Waters of Lakes Superior, Huron and Michigan in 2004, with recommended yield and effort levels for 2005. Technical Fisheries Committee, 1836 Treaty- Ceded Waters of Lakes Superior , Huron and Michigan. Also available at:   http://www.michigan.gov/documents/2005StatusLTLakeWhitefishPop_150006_7.pdf, as of May 22, 2008.