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 | | For the small coastal shark aggregate, the mean catch rate for positive catches was explained by the year and season factors, but the area factor was eliminated from the final model because it did not meet the criterion of at least 1% reduction in deviance per degree of freedom (Table 19). |
 | | For the small coastal shark aggregate, the trend of the relative standardized catch rates was substantially different from that of the nominal values during the early part of the time series, and from 1978 to 1983 the nominal values did not fall within the 95% CL of the standardized values (Figure 14). |
 | | For the small coastal aggregate and Atlantic sharpnose, the posterior for the virgin biomass, B0, ended abruptly near the right tail of the distribution (Figures 25 and 27, respectively), whereas the posteriors for bonnethead, flnose, and finetooth were more normal (Figures 29, 31, and 33), although skewed to the right, especially for the finetooth shark. |
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