In my work, which is summarised in this paper for obtaining accreditation to supervise research (the HDR), I addressed three areas: i) statistical methods of estimating the density of living resources, ii) mathematical models of population dynamics for estimating the abundance of marine populations and iii) methods for detecting temporal changes in the status of exploited populations. My work has focused on: i) Many studies of the observability of fish by trawling and by video and the development of stochastic models to better assess local fish densities. ii) Development of models without commercial catches, using Bayesian and frequentist approaches; the study of multi-specific relationships and the proposal for a threshold predator-prey model. iii)... |