Add to ORKGThe goal of fisheries assessment is to predict the consequences of fishing and other environmental interventions and, on that basis, evaluate how different management schemes fare at achieving various management goals. Forecasting the state and harvest of exploited populations and communities is thus central to fishery science.There are two broad approaches that can be used to forecast fisheries population and harvest. On the one hand, there are short-term forecasts aimed at predicting the size of the exploitable stock for the upcoming fishing season in order to implement a predetermined feedback harvest rule. In this case, the forecast is part of the tactic used to define regulatory measures for the fishing season, such as the total allowa...