Standardisation of North Atlantic albacore (Thunnus alalunga), CPUE

Catch and effort data from the ICCAT database were standardised using General Linear Models to provide indices of abundance for the 2009 Atlantic MFCL stock assessment. A systematic approach based upon inspection of diagnostics was used. While to allow analyses to be run prior to and efficiently at the meeting and to aid in transparency the analysis was developed using the open source R statistical environment (cran.r-project.org) and code, data and this manuscript are all available as part of a Google code project at http://code.google.com/p/glmscrs/