FESta - Fishing Effort Standardization
Marine fisheries governance and management rely heavily on
reliable indicators of stock abundance and fishing pressure to
ensure the sustainable utilization of marine resources. Catch
Per Unit Effort (CPUE) is widely used as an index of relative
abundance, but direct comparison of catch rates is often
affected by differences in fishing effort, vessel
characteristics, gear efficiency, and operational practices.
The FESta package provides methods for fishing effort and CPUE
standardization, including vessel-based, gear-based, relative
effort, derived effort, generalized linear models, generalized
additive models, generalized linear mixed models, ordered
quantile transformation models, and multi-gear standardization
techniques for fisheries stock assessment and monitoring. To
cite our package run this command, citation("FESta").
