User Base

This map is incomplete. If you know of organizations using ADMB, please provide names and street addresses to Juan Valero (jvalero@iattc.org) so that they can be added to the map.

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ADMB User Base and Major Applications

Research organizations, government departments, and companies
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USA)National Marine Fisheries Service (USA)National Istitute of Water and Atmospheric Research (New Zealand)CSIRO (Australia)Cefas (UK)Fisheries and Oceans Canada (Canada)Danish Institute for Fisheries Research (Denmark)L’Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) (France)Inter-American tropical Tuna Commission(International)

International Pacific halibut Commission (International)Secretariat of the Pacific Community (International)Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (International)International Whaling Commission (International)Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (USA Inter-tribal)Modeling subcommittee, Technical Fisheries Committee, 1836 Treaty Waters, Michigan, USA (Chippewa Ottawa Resource Authority and associated tribes, Michigan Department of Natural Resources (Charlevoix, Alpena and Marquette Fisheries Stations), USFWS (Green Bay, Alpena, Ashland)).Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (USA Inter-tribal)Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (USA)International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (not sure if this is the commission or the individual countries)Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (not sure if this is the commission or the individual countries)National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries (NRIFSF) (Japan)Quantitative Resource Assessment LLC (USA)Marine Research Centre, Malé, (Republic of Maldives)Institute of Marine Research, Nordnes, (Norway)Marine and Coastal Management, Cape Town, (South Africa)Seafood Industry Council (SeaFIC), Wellington, (New Zealand)Trophia, (New Zealand)

British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, (UK)

International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas

Department of Fisheries Western AustraliaOkeanos-Oceanides Consortium for Conservation and Marine Development (Mexico)Fairport Fisheries Research Station, ODNR, Division of Wildlife (USA)Centro Nacional Patagonico (Argentina)
Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo Pesquero (Argentina)
Universities
University of Washington (USA – Andre Punt)

Quantitative Fisheries Center, Michigan State University (USA – Jim Bence, Michael Jones co-directors, Travis Brenden associate director)Tokyo University of Agriculture (Japan – Minoru Kanaiwa – Multispecies statHBS)University of Auckland (New Zealand – Russell Millar)

Cornell University (USA – Patrick Sullivan)University of British Columbia (Canada – Steve Martell)

University of Cape Town (South Africa – Doug Butterworth)Universidad de Concepción (Chile – Billy Ernst)University of Rhode Island (USA – Jeremy Collie)

Simon Fraser (Canada – Sean Cox)

University of Bergen (Norway – Hans Julius Skaug)

University of Tasmania (Australia – Malcolm Haddon)Murdoch University (Australia – Norm Hall)National Taiwan University (Taiwan – Chi-Lu Sun/Sheng-Ping Wang)University of Maine, Orono (USA – Yong Chen)University of Hawaii, Honolulu (USA – John Sibert – Anders Nielsen)University of Oslo (Norway – Dinara Sadykova)Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (Japan – Toshihide Kitakado)Universidade Estadual de Maringá (Brasil – Carolina V. Minte-Vera)
Major Applications

MULTIFAN-CL: MULTIFAN-CL is a computer program that implements a statistical, length-based, age-structured and spatial-structured model for use in fisheries stock assessment. The model is a convergence of two previous approaches. The original MULTIFAN model (Fournier et al. 1990) provided a method of analysing time series of length-frequency data using statistical theory to provide estimates of von Bertalanffy growth parameters and the proportions-at-age in the length-frequency data. The model and associated software were developed as an analytical tool for fisheries in which large-scale age sampling of catches was infeasible or not cost effective, but where length-frequency sampling data were available. MULTIFAN provided a statistically-based, robust method of length-frequency analysis that was an alternative to several ad hoc methods being promoted in the 1980s. The Western Central Pacific Fish Commission for the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPFC)depends on MULTIFAN-CL for assessment of skipjack, yellowfin, bigeye and albacore tuna stocks. MULTIFAN-CL has also been used for assessment of blue sharks, swordfish, and blue marlin in the Pacific.

Stock Synthesis
NOAA Fisheries Toolbox Version  Version 3.24f (October 2012). Stock Synthesis of SS provides a statistical framework for calibrating a population dynamics model with a diversity of fishery and survey data. The program can accommodate both age and size structure, with multiple stock sub-areas.

trackit and kftrack/kfsst: state-space models for reconstructing tracks produced by electronic tags. This software can be applied directly to solar irradiance time series recorded by archival tags or to position estimates produced by other algorithms. These programs have have become the methods of choice in many laboratories.

SEAPODYM is a model for investigating physical-biological interaction between tuna populations and the oceanic ecosystem. Using predicted environment from ocean-biogeochemical models, SEAPODYM integrates spatio-temporal and multi-population dynamics and considers interactions among populations of different species and between populations and their physical and biological environment (including intermediate trophic levels). The model also includes a description of multiple fisheries and then predicts spatio-temporal distribution of catch catch rates, and length-frequencies of catch based either on observed or simulated fishing effort. Applications of SEAPODYM include management strategy evaluation, predicting effects of global warming, design of time-area closures. SEAPODYM-APE is a Adjoint Parameter Estimation procudure build on the AUTODIF library that estimates tuna population dynamics parameters from fisheries data.

A-SCALA: Age-Structured Statistical Catch-at-Length Analysis used at the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission http://www.iattc.org/for assessment of tuna stocks in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. A-SCALA is based on the MULTIFAN-CL modeling framework. A-SCALA has been used to assess tuna stocks in the eastern Pacific Ocean for the past 8 years. The species assessed include yellowfin, skipjack, and bigeye tuna. A-SCALA has also been applied to bigeye tuna in the western and central Pacific Ocean.

Coleraine : A generalized age structured stock assessment model. Coleraine has been used in several countries to assess the status of many fish stocks (e.g. US: sablefish, short spine thornyhead, ling, Pacific herring, various rockfish; Canada: albacore tuna, rock sole; New Zealand: southern blue whiting, orange roughy, smooth oreo, rig; Australia: silver trevally, jackass morwong, pink ling, redfish; Chile: lobster, shrimp; Iceland: cod). Coleraine was used to provide examples and was included as a tool in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ Bayesian stock assessment user’s manual. Coleraine has been used in several university courses (e.g. the courses “Age Structured Modeling” FISH 507 and “Advanced Fisheries Stock Assessment” FISH 558at the University of Washington. The course “Evaluacion de Stock” at the Universidad de Concepcion, Chile).

statHBS: A statistical version of the habitat based method to standardize catch and effort data from longline fisheries. This is a nonlinear model that has had applications that have included data sets with hundreds of thousands of data points. This model has been used by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, the US National Marine Fisheries Service, the National Research Institute for far Seas Fisheries, Japan, Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, and the International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean. The model has been applied to several Pacific HMS species including: bigeye and yellowfin tuna, striped marlin and blue shark. Funding has been acquired by the US National Marine Fisheries Service from the Pelagic Fisheries Research Program to develop it further.

A generalized assessment and management strategy evaluation model for marine mammals: This model was funded by the New Zealand Department of Conservation and was applied to the New Zealand sea lion population. Its has also been adapted to other marine mammal stocks in New Zealand (e.g. Hectors and Maui dolphin)

Case specific models for Alaska groundfish: These age-structured models were developed from a core set of routines at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center. They include assessment applications to three different stocks of Alaska pollock, Alaska-wide sablefish, eight stocks of flatfish, seven stocks of rockfish, and Atka mackerel in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. Overall, these assessments are used to manage nearly two million tons of catch each year.

A Bayesian seasonal and sex-specific length-structured assessment model for the American lobster stocks: This model is developed for assessing the American lobster fishery in the northeastern United States. It is funded by the Maine Sea Grant College Program, Maine Department of Marine Resources, and Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission.

Stocks for which recent assessments rely on ADMB, AutoDiff or their derivatives. (add annual value of fishery in $US after each stock/species if known)

University of cape Town – South Africa
Custom

African penguin

Sardine

Anchovy

Rock lobster
Quantitative Fisheries Center, Michigan State University
Custom

Yellow perch – Lake Michigan

Chinook salmon – Lakes Michigan and Huron

Sea lamprey – St. Marys River, Lake Huron
Modeling subcommittee, Technical Fisheries Committee, 1836 Treaty Waters
Custom

Lake whitefish – Lakes Michigan, Huron, and Superior

Lake trout – Lakes Michigan, Huron, and Superior
California Department of Fish and Game
Stock Synthesis

California Scorpionfish
IATTC (US$ 1.5 Billion)
Stock Synthesis Swordfish

Bigeye TunaCustom

Yellowfin Tuna

Skipjack Tuna

stripped marlin

Hawaiian Black footed albatross

Spotted dolphin
SPC
Multifan-CL

Yellowfin Tuna

Albacore Tuna

Bigeye Tuna

Skipjack tuna
ISC
Stock Synthesis Northern bluefin tuna (Japan Far Seas Lab/NMFS)

Albacore (NMFS)

Swordfish (NMFS)
CSIRO
Stock Synthesis Jackass Morwong

Silver Trevally

Tiger Flathead

Eastern Gemfish

School Whiting

Blue Warehou

Pink Ling

Spotted Warehou

Eastern Zone Orange Roughy

Cascade Orange Roughy

Elephant fish

Bight Redfish

Deepwater FlatheadCustom

Blue grenadier

Redfish

Saw shark

Gummy Shark

Macquarie Island toothfish

Tiger and endeavour prawn assessment, Northern Prawn Fishery
University of Tasmania
Custom

Tasmanian Rock Lobster
NMFS
Stock Synthesis BSAI Greenland turbot

BSAI Pacific cod

GOA Pacific cod

North Pacific albacore tuna

Pacific coast Blackgill rockfish

Pacific coast Cabezon

Pacific coast Canary rockfish

Pacific coast Chilipepper rockfish

Pacific coast Cowcod

Pacific coast Dark-blotched rockfish

Pacific coast Dover sole

Pacific coast English sole

Pacific coast Gopher rockfish

Pacific coast Lingcod

Pacific coast longnose skate

Pacific coast Longspine thornyhead

Pacific coast Pacific Ocean perch

Pacific coast Pacific sardine

Pacific coast Pacific whiting

Pacific coast Petrale sole

Pacific coast Sablefish

Pacific coast Shortspine thornyhead

Pacific coast Starry flounder

Pacific coast Yelloweye rockfish

Pacific coast Yellowtail rockfish

Pacific coast BaccacioMultifan-CL

Pacific blue shark

North Pacific swordfish

North Pacific bluefin tunaCustom

Aleutian Islands Atka mackerel

Aleutian Islands pollock

Bogoslof pollock

Alaska-wide projection model

Pacific coast Widow rockfish SCA

BSAI Northern rockfish

BSAI Pacific ocean perch

BSAI Alaska plaice

BSAI flathead sole

BSAI northern rock sole

BSAI Arrowtooth Flounder

BSAI Shortraker/Rougheye

BSAI Snow crab

BSAI yellowfin sole

EBS Pollock

GOA Arrowtooth Flounder

GOA Dover sole

GOA Northern rockfish

GOA Pacific ocean perch

GOA pollock

GOA Rex sole

GOA Rougheye rockfish

GOA Shortraker rockfish

Alaska Sablefish

Acadian redfish

Atlantic herring

Atlantic mackerel

Georges Bank cod

Gulf of Maine cod

Gulf of Maine winter flounder

NE Ocean quahog

NE Sea scallops

Southern New England winter flounder

NE Surf clam

Atlantic menhaden

SE black sea bass

SE cobia

SE gag grouper

SE Goliath grouper

Gulf of Mexico greater amberjack

SE greater amberjack

SE grey triggerfish

Gulf menhaden

SE Lane snapper

SE large coastal sharks

SE red grouper

SE red porgy

Gulf of Mexico red snapper

SE small coastal sharks

SE snowy grouper

SE tilefish

SE vermilion snapper SCL-VRS

Gulf of Mexico vermilion snapper

SE yellowedge grouper

SE Sandbar shark

Longfin squid

Atlantic white marlin

NIWA/MFish
Custom

Yellow-eye penguin

New Zealand Sea Lion

Hector’s Dolphin – Model estimates for Banks Peninsula subpopulation; risk analysis for three subpopulations around the South Island, New Zealand.

Maui’s Dolphin – risk analysis using Bayesian estimates from Banks Peninsula model.

CRA3 and NSS, NSN substock and the combined CRA 4 and CRA 5 stock of red rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii)

paua (Haliotis iris) in PAU 7, PAU 5B and PAU 5D

cockles on Snake Bank
IOTC
Stock Synthesis Bigeye tuna (Japan far seas)
Undersecretary of Fisheries, Ministery of Economy, Chile
Custom

skate (Raja flavirostris)

south Pacific swordfish (Xiphias gladius)
DFO Canada
Coleraine

Hecate St rocksoleCustom

Sablefish

Hecate Strait Pacific cod

Pacific Ocean perch assessment for the West Coast of Canada

Porbeagle Shark (Lamna nasus) Population in the Northwest Atlantic

anadromous alosa

Hecate St English sole

Queen Charlotte Sound English sole

West Coast BC Petrale sole
Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin
Custom

Bluefin tuna
International Pacific Halibut Commission
Custom

Pacific Halibut
Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission
Custom

Walleye, northern pike, and yellow perch in Mille Lacs Lake

Walleye in inland Wisconsin Lakes

Lake trout in Lake Superior
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Custom

Walleye in Mille Lacs Lake
IWC
Custom

Branch, T.A. & Butterworth, D.S. 2006a. Assessment of the East Greenland-Iceland fin whale
SeaFIC/UW
Coleraine/Awatea

Orange Roughy

SPO7 rig
Trophia
Custom

TRE7 Trevally

Yellow-eye penguin (see NIWA/MFish)
Quantitative Resource Assessment LLC
Stock Synthesis

California scorpionfish (see California Department of Fish and Game)
British Antarctic Survey – Cambridge, UK
Custom

Antarctic penguins

Adelie, chinstrap and gentoo penguin population dynamics at South Georgia and South Orkney Islands
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
MULTIFAN-CL

Atlantic Bigeye Tuna

N. Atlantic Albacore
Department of Fisheries Western Australia
Custom

Western Rock Lobster

University of Maine (Orono)
Custom

Maine green sea urchin fishery ($10 million)

American lobster fishery in the northeastern USA (Gulf of Maine stock, Georges Bank stock, and Southern New England stock)($1 billion)