In iantaylor-NOAA/Lingcod_2021: Estimate the Status of Lingcod off the US West Coast in 2021

Ecosystem considerations

Ecosystem considerations were not explicitly included in this analysis. However, habitat variables were included in some of the models used to standardize commercial and recreational \gls{cpue} data prior to including that information as an index in the stock assessment model. Future work could expand upon that done by Bassett et al. [-@bassett2018lingcod], which found that ontogenetic habitat shifts could be an age restriction on the r spp able to benefit from the placement of \glspl{rca} and \glspl{mpa}.

Given the predatory nature of r spp, they more than likely influence the natural mortality of rockfish species that are highly targeted by recreational fishers [e.g., @beaudreau2007spatial]. When diet data are collected at a sufficient spatial resolution to inform predatory relationships, the estimated abundance of r spp could be used to inform estimates of time-varying natural mortality for these longer-lived rockfish species.

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