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Optimization of stratification scheme for a fishery-independent survey with multiple objectives

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Fishery-independent surveys are often used for collecting high quality biological and ecological data to support fisheries management. A careful optimization of fishery-independent survey design is necessary to improve the precision of survey estimates with cost-effective sampling efforts. We developed a simulation approach to evaluate and optimize the stratification scheme for a fishery-independent survey with multiple goals including estimation of abundance indices of individual species and species diversity indices. We compared the performances of the sampling designs with different stratification schemes for different goals over different months. Gains in precision of survey estimates from the stratification schemes were acquired compared to simple random sampling design for most indices. The stratification scheme with five strata performed the best. This study showed that the loss of precision of survey estimates due to the reduction of sampling efforts could be compensated by improved stratification schemes, which would reduce the cost and negative impacts of survey trawling on those species with low abundance in the fishery-independent survey. This study also suggests that optimization of a survey design differed with different survey objectives. A post-survey analysis can improve the stratification scheme of fishery-independent survey designs.

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  1. College of Fisheries, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China

    Binduo Xu, Yiping Ren, Yong Chen, Ying Xue, Chongliang Zhang & Rong Wan

  2. School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, 04469, USA

    Binduo Xu, Yong Chen & Chongliang Zhang

  3. Laboratory for Marine Fisheries and Aquaculture, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology Qingdao, Qingdao, 266000, China

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Foundation item: The Public Science and Technology Research Funds Projects of Ocean under contract No. 201305030; the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education under contract No. 20120132130001.

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Xu, B., Ren, Y., Chen, Y. et al. Optimization of stratification scheme for a fishery-independent survey with multiple objectives. Acta Oceanol. Sin. 34, 154–169 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-015-0739-z

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