Tutorials and Vignettes
These code vignettes will walk you through how to set up and use some commonly used fish stock assessment models. All of these tools can be found in NOAA Fisheries Integrated Toolbox.
Stock Synthesis (SS3)
Stock Synthesis (SS3) is an age-structured population dynamics model that is used to assess the impact of fisheries on fish and shellfish stocks while taking into account the influence of environmental factors.
Woods Hole Assessment Model (WHAM)
The Woods Hole Assessment Model (WHAM) is a general state-space age-structured stock assessment framework designed to include environmental effects on population processes. The state-space framework is attractive because it can estimate observation and process error, as well as naturally propagate random effect parameters in stock projections. WHAM can be configured to estimate a range of assessment models including statistical catch-at-age (SCAA) model with recruitments as fixed effects, SCAA with recruitments as random effects, and “full state-space model”, abundance at all ages are random effects.
Metapopulation Assessment System (MAS)
The Metapopulation Assessment System (MAS) is a modular tool for creating and fitting fisheries stock assessment models. The R interface to MAS, r4MAS allows users to build and run MAS models directly using the R language. It also includes functions to help translate between MAS and other stock assessment software and to plot outputs of MAS models, including estimates of key biological and observation parameters and derived quantities such as biological reference points, estimated biomass, and estimated numbers-at-age.