10. PAUL DEPESTELE ♂
Information acquired: 2025
PAUL DEPESTELE is an academic who published a paper in 2024 entitled SEAwise Report on improved predictive models of growth, production and stock quality.. PAUL DEPESTELE published this work as part of a team: Ibaibarriaga, Leire. Here is a description of this work: The SEAwise project works to deliver a fully operational tool that will allow fishers, managers, and policy makers to easily apply Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management (EBFM) in their fisheries and understanding how ecological drivers impact stock productivity through growth, condition and maturity is essential to this proces. In this SEAwise report, we present the predictive models of fish growth, condition and maturity obtained so far in each of the four regional case studies.The biological processes (fish growth, condition and maturity) were studied in terms of body size (weight-at-age, length-at-age), condition factor, otolith increments and size at first maturity. Underlying data were available at different levels, ranging from individual fish, to sampling haul or stock level. Accordingly, the methods employed varied across case stu.