The aim of stock assessment is to provide managers with an understanding of the biomass and age-/size-composition of a stock, stock status (ideally relative to target and reference points), and to support management decision making, often through projections and application of harvest control rules. Stock assessments are increasingly being used to form the basis for the operating models used to evaluate the ability of management strategies to achieve the goals of fisheries management. Stock assessments for rock lobsters were among the first to adopt size-structured population models as the basis for stock assessment, and population model-based stock assessments have been used extensively to evaluate management strategies for rock lobster stocks in the USA, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. This paper identifies how closely population model-based stock assessments for rock lobsters satisfy the guidelines identified for best practices for conducting stock assessments during meetings of, for example, the Center for the Advancement of Population Assessment Methodology and papers identifying best practice guidelines for stock assessment. The paper highlights some key directions for stock assessment science for rock lobsters, including considerations related to environmental variation and climate change.

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岩龙虾库存评估：过去、现在和未来

种群评估的目的是让管理者了解种群的生物量和年龄/大小组成、种群状况（理想情况下相对于目标和参考点），并通常通过预测和应用来支持管理决策收获控制规则。种群评估越来越多地被用来构成运营模型的基础，用于评估管理战略实现渔业管理目标的能力。岩龙虾种群评估是最早采用规模结构种群模型作为种群评估基础的，基于种群模型的种群评估已广泛用于评估美国、澳大利亚、新西兰的岩龙虾种群管理策略和南非。本文确定了基于种群模型的岩龙虾种群评估在多大程度上符合在种群评估方法促进中心等会议期间进行种群评估的最佳实践指南，以及确定种群评估最佳实践指南的论文。该论文强调了岩龙虾种群评估科学的一些关键方向，包括与环境变化和气候变化相关的考虑因素。