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stock assessment tools II
Revised version
Users guide
FiSAT II
ISSN 1020-3249
FAO
fisheries
FAO-ICLARM
stock assessment tools II
Revised version
Users guide
F.C. Gayanilo, Jr
National Center for Caribbean Coral Reef Research, University of Miami
Miami, United States of America
P. Sparre
Danish Institute for Fisheries and Marine Research
Charlottenlund, Denmark
D. Pauly
Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
WORLDFISH CENTER
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 2005
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Acknowledgements
Thanks are due to all scientists around the world and to Ana Maria
Caramelo, Denis Berthier and Merete Tandstad from FAO for their
technical inputs in the development and testing of the various modules of
FiSAT II; to Marie-Thrse Magnan, Stephen Cofield and Franoise
Schatto-Terribile, for editing the last version of this manual; to Ms Maria
Concesa Gayanilo for her free services in painstakingly encoding the
revisions made to this document.
Special thanks to Prof. Pedro de Barros, for correcting errors found by
the users in the software.
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Contents
Preparation of this document ..................................................iii
Acknowledgements..................................................................iii
Abstract.....................................................................................iv
Chapter 1. Getting started
What you will learn from this chapter .................................. 1
About the package ................................................................ 1
System requirements............................................................. 1
Installing and starting FiSAT II............................................. 2
The graphic user interface..................................................... 4
The main user interface ................................................. 4
User inputs to FiSAT II ................................................. 5
Using the menu bar ....................................................... 6
Chapter 2. HELP facilities
What you will learn from this chapter ................................... 8
Types of HELP messages...................................................... 8
Accessing HELP................................................................... 9
On-line help messages ................................................... 9
FiSAT II on the web ...................................................... 10
Technical support .......................................................... 11
Chapter 3. FILE menu
What you will learn from this chapter ................................... 12
Types of files ........................................................................ 12
Time series of length frequencies ................................... 13
Length frequencies grouped by constant class size .. 13
Ungrouped length frequencies ................................ 17
Data grouped by variable class sizes........................ 18
Growth increments......................................................... 20
Length-at-age................................................................. 21
Catch in numbers by age ................................................ 22
Series of mean lengths and standard deviations .............. 23
Probabilities of capture .................................................. 24
Table of values............................................................... 26
Two-column regression files .......................................... 27
Species table ................................................................. 28
Fleet table ..................................................................... 29
Multispecies/multifleet scenario .................................... 30
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