FESta (Q138038)

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").