Routine Work

OLRAC » Ocean & Land Resource Assessment Consultants

OLRAC routinely deals with:
  • All modern quantitative stock assessment tools (Bayesian assessments, surplus production modeling, size based mathematical models, age structured production models and mark-recapture based assessment procedures)
  • Exploration of the quantitative implications of management decisions using a set of highly evolved mathematical modeling techniques including development tools for Operational Management Procedures.
  • Multivariate statistical analyses.
  • Development of new mathematical and statistical methods and computer software when existing techniques are insufficient or non-existent.
  • Fishing gear studies and the design, supervision and execution of experimental field studies and stock assessment surveys.
  • Bio-economic appraisals of fisheries in the context of the scientific paradigms underlying their management.
  • The development of fisheries databases, which combine commercial and scientific information.
  • Environmental impact assessment of competing users of the marine environment.