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On The Compatibility Of Results From Adapt-Vpa And Transition-Phased-Based Trends In Age-At-Maturity For The I-Stock Of Antarctic Minke Whales
A counter example is provided to show that inferences of incompatibility between population trends from ADAPT-VPA and independently estimated changes in the age-at-sexual-maturity of Antarctic minke whales over the late 1940s to late 1960s are not robust to plausible variants of the ADAPT-VPA assessment (specifically in this case admitting the possibility of a small negative slope in selectivity at larger ages). Final conclusions on this matter should await fuller investigations on the ability to the ADAPT-VPA estimator to reliably estimate the shape of the time-trend in carrying capacity over this period, upon which inferences of compatibility or otherwise are critically dependent.