Long-term trends in age-specific recruitment of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in a changing environment

Sibling – age-class (sibling) models, which relate abundance of one age-class of adult sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) to abundance of the previous age-class in the previous year, are commonly used to forecast abundance 1 year ahead. Standard sibling models assume constant parameters over time. However, many sockeye salmon populations have shown temporal changes in age-at-maturity. We therefore developed a new Kalman filter sibling model that allowed for time-varying parameters. We found considerable evidence for long-term trends in parameters of sibling models for 24 sockeye salmon stocks in British Columbia and Alaska; most trends reflected increasing age-at-maturity. In a retrospective analysis, the Kalman filter forecasting models reduced mean-squared forecasting errors compared with standard sibling models in 29%–39% of the stocks depending on the age-class. The Kalman filter models also had mean percent biases closer to zero than the standard models for 54%–94% of the stocks. Parameters of these...

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