Estimation od Exploitation by Combinibg Mark-Recapture Procedures with a 
Creel Survey

Ram C. Dahiya, Shampa Saha, and Hassan Lakkis

Government agencies are usually interested in estimating the annual
exploitation rate of a fish population for recreational and commerical
fisheries. In this paper, we propose a model-based approach for the
estimation of the exploitation rate. Our approach combines mark-recapture
procedures with a creel survey which is a type of angler survey). We consider
moment estimation of the exploitation rate. We also consider estimation of
the exploitation rate by stratifying the space-time units of the fisheries.