I Introduction -- 1 Role of Stock Assessment in Fisheries Management -- 2 Objectives of Fisheries Management -- II Behavior of Fisheries -- 3 Behavior of Exploited Populations -- 4 The Dynamics of Fishing Fleets -- III Estimation of Parameters -- 5 Observing Fish Populations -- 6 Relating Models to Data: Parameter Estimation -- 7 Stock and Recruitment -- 8 Biomass Dynamic Models -- 9 Delay Difference Models -- 10 Virtual Population Analysis -- 11 Statistical Catch-at-age Methods -- 12 Depletion Estimates of Population Size and Turnover -- 13 Analysis of Body-size and Growth Data -- 14 Multispecies Analysis -- IV Managing Fisheries -- 15 Harvest Strategies and Tactics -- 16 Optimization -- 17 Designing Adaptive Management Policies -- 18 Making Stock Assessment and Management Work -- Author Index.