Quantitative Fisheries Center Projects

The Center was approved on July 1, 2005.  During our first year we have recruited an Associate Director, a Specialist - Programmer, and two post-doctoral research associates. Existing quantitative fisheries research projects have also been absorbed into the Center. We are now located in Giltner Hall on the MSU campus. Some of our recent and on-going projects are:

1

Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Natural Resources and Ecology  [online course].

2

Introduction to R Statistical Language and Software Environment  [online course].

3

Resampling Approaches to Data Analysis in Natural Resources and Ecology [online course].

4

Introductory and advanced training workshop in the use of AD - Model Builder for fisheries parameter estimation.  Workshops have been held in Michigan, Minnesota, and New York.

5

Lake Erie Percid Stock Assessment and Management.

6

1836 Treaty Waters Stock Assessment and Fishery Management.

7

Statistical Catch-at-Age Stock Assessment Methods and Harvest Policy Analyses.

8

Evaluation of Harvest Policies for Yellow Perch in Lake Michigan.

9

Defining Targets for Sea Lamprey Control in the Great Lakes: Economic Injury Levels and Fish Community Goal-based Targets.

10

Real Options for Fish Translocations: The Case of Sterile Male Sea Lamprey Translocation and Release from Lake Ontario.

11

Magnitude and Potential Causes of Mortality in Four Lake Whitefish Populations in Lakes Michigan and Huron.