Sampling populations, calculating weighted estimates, and accounting for errors, outliers, and uncertainty are important steps in our work to produce recreational catch statistics. There are two broad ...

Generally, we expect that surveys representing the same target population should produce estimates that are consistent with one another; that is, measures taken at roughly the same time should not ...

These communication products help explain how recreational fishing data are collected, how recreational catch estimates are produced, and how these estimates support sustainable fishing. The Marine ...

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Suppose you buy a major asset like a new piece of machinery. Under standard accounting rules, you cannot write off the cost of the machinery in the year you incur the expense. Rather, you have to ...