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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">This is a good starting pt
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        href="http://www.nafo.int/publications/studies/no32/sinclair.pdf">http://www.nafo.int/publications/studies/no32/sinclair.pdf</a>.<br>
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      i.e. BMSY is a limit, the biomass should be >BMSY. If it drops
      below then reduce F. So BMSY could be the Btrigger. That would be
      too much for ICES to get its head around, hence my suggestion of
      BMSY*60%.<br>
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      Such things are discussed in
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      I have a preference for taking a percentile of BMSY So that there
      is a positive relationship between information and use, i.e. the
      less you know the more precautionary you need to be. Something
      like 60% of the 75th percentile of BMSY would mean that the value
      of Btrigger would increase as uncertainty increased.<br>
      <br>
      Axel´s suggestion would be "un-precautionary" since taking a lower
      percentile as the trigger means that as you become more uncertain
      about BMSY then Btrigger would become smaller<span dir="auto"><i>,
          i.e. Reductio ad absurdum</i></span> if you knew nothing about
      BMSY then Btrigger would 0, if you knew it with 100% certainty it
      would equal BMSY<br>
      <br>
      Laurie<br>
      <br>
      <br>
      On 10/08/12 15:53, Hintzen, Niels wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Sounds
            perfect! Any rational, papers that suggest this approach I
            can read up on?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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                  lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
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                lang="EN-US">
                <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:flr-list-bounces@lists.r-forge.r-project.org">flr-list-bounces@lists.r-forge.r-project.org</a>
                [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:flr-list-bounces@lists.r-forge.r-project.org">mailto:flr-list-bounces@lists.r-forge.r-project.org</a>]
                <b>On Behalf Of </b>Laurie<br>
                <b>Sent:</b> vrijdag, augustus 10, 2012 15:42<br>
                <b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:flr-list@flr-project.org">flr-list@flr-project.org</a><br>
                <b>Subject:</b> Re: [FLR-list] Estimating Btrigger
                suggestions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal">60% of BMSY<br>
            <br>
            On 10/08/12 15:31, Hintzen, Niels wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi
              Laurie,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks
              for this, and I agree that F = Fmsy if B > Bmsy where
              Bmsy can be Btrigger. However, based on other criteria
              than biology alone, you could choose for different Fmsy
              values (upper or lower bound for example) which
              automatically will result in different Btrigger values.
              The problem is that I do NOT want to derive a Btrigger
              through MSE as you suggest, we’ve done that before, it
              works well, but if you are kind of in the dark where
              Btrigger should be, you are up for lots of scenarios, the
              one thing I try to prevent here. Hence, I’m looking for a
              smart way to get an estimate of Btrigger which is related
              to Fmsy without doing lots of scenario testing.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Any
              other suggestions?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Cheers,
              Niels</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"
                    lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
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                  lang="EN-US">
                  <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                  <b>On Behalf Of </b>Laurie<br>
                  <b>Sent:</b> vrijdag, augustus 10, 2012 15:17<br>
                  <b>To:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:flr-list@flr-project.org">flr-list@flr-project.org</a><br>
                  <b>Subject:</b> Re: [FLR-list] Estimating Btrigger
                  suggestions</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">Btrigger is a level of biomass that if
              the stock falls triggers management action to rebuild the
              stock as part of a HCR.<br>
              <br>
              Choosing a value that is too small will result in higher
              risk of stock collapse and loss yield since biomass will
              fall below BMSY, Choosing a value that is too high will
              result in loss yield due to fishing effort being reduced
              unnecessarily. Blim needs to balance these objectives. The
              best way to do this would be to conduct an MSE with
              appropriate uncertainty, i.e. try a variety of values for
              Btrigger and choose the one that performs best. If you
              have an MSY harvest control rule there is no need for an
              Ftrigger as you would be setting F to FMSY if B>BMSY
              and F to that given by the line joining (FMSY, Btrigger)
              to (Flim,blim).<br>
              <br>
              Laurie<br>
               <br>
              <br>
                <br>
              <br>
              On 10/08/12 14:32, Hintzen, Niels wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Dear
                all,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Sometime
                soon, I’m faced with another Management Plan Evaluation
                for North Sea herring. Obviously we’ll be using FLR.
                However, I’d like to gain a bit more insight into good
                practices to ‘estimate’ a specific biomass reference
                point, so it is a bit off-topic but the expertise in
                this group is so high I could not resist sending this
                question!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The
                current HCR prescribes an Fbar of 0.1 below Blim
                (determined on a biological basis) and increases
                linearly with SSB up to a Btrigger biomass point
                (determined in 2008 based on a performance basis, i.e.
                scenario testing, which scenario performed best). Above
                this Btrigger, the HCR prescribes an Fbar of 0.25
                (considered Fmsy).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Within
                the new evaluation, Blim, Btrigger and Fmsy will be a
                point of discussion (because the stock assessment
                changed considerably). I have some ideas on how to
                estimate Blim and Fmsy, but with Btrigger I’m a bit in
                the dark. What I can think of so far is to run
                stochastic equilibrium simulation assuming constant Fs
                (over a range) and, as a first guess, taking Btrigger as
                the median equilibrium SSB. Does this make sense, and if
                not, what would you suggest to do. I need some sort of
                approach to link potential Ftrigger points to Btrigger
                points because else I will be running far too many
                scenarios to be able to analyse and discuss later on.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Many
                thanks in advance for your suggestions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Kind
                regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Niels</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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            <pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre>
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          <pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre>
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