Hydroacoustic

Kootenay Lake Large Piscivorous Trout Hydroacoustic Analysis 2013

The suggested citation for this analytic report is:

Thorley J.L. and Hogan P.M. (2014) Kootenay Lake Large Piscivorous Trout Hydroacoustic Analysis 2013. A Poisson Consulting Analysis Report. URL: https://www.poissonconsulting.ca/f/76712537.

Background

Hierarchical Bayesian models were fitted to the hydroacoustic density data and acoustic tag depth detection for Kootenay Lake using using R version 3.0.2 (Team, 2013 ) and JAGS 3.3.0 (Plummer, 2012 ) which interfaced with each other via the jaggernaut (Thorley, 2014 ) R package. For additional information on hierarchical Bayesian modelling in the BUGS language, of which JAGS uses a dialect, the reader is referred to Kery and Schuab (2011) pages 41-44.

The hydroacoustic data was provided by the Ministry of Forest, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO) and the acoustic tag depth data by the Kootenay Lake Exploitation Study (Andrusak and Thorley, 2013 ).