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The Data-Limited Methods Toolkit (DLMtool) is a freely-available, open-source software package that uses computer simulations of real-world fisheries to help scientists and managers with three common objectives: 1) identifying the most effective management methods given the uncertainties associated with data-limited fisheries, 2) computing explicit management guidance based on the best-available data, and 3) prioritizing future data collection programs... The Toolkit contains an integrated management strategy evaluation function to identify acceptable harvest control rules based on user-specified stock type, fishing fleet, management type, and performance criteria. As the name suggests, management strategy evaluation (MSE) is the process of evaluating the performance of alternative management strategies, which in this case are comprised of management procedures for data-limited fisheries. Real world experiments in fisheries management are extremely difficult, primarily because two of..