The longline CPUE series for Inaccessible, Nightingale and Gough islands are GLMM standardised through to 2023. Year, month, area, trap-type, soak time, depth, sequential day and year-area interactions are treated as fixed effects, and year-month interactions treated as a random effect. The recent standardised CPUEs for Inaccessible and Nightingale continue to be high (well above the respective Itar levels), with those for Gough having risen recently to also be substantially higher than the associated Itar value. There have been slight decreases for all three islands between the 2022 and 2023 season’s CPUE.
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Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town