Zusammenfassung: This technical report describes a FORTRAN program (HISEA.FOR) to be used in the study of mixed stock fishery composition estimation. Program HISEA is a versatile research tool capable of performing analyses. The simplest use of HISEA is to perform a composition analysis. The program can then be run in bootstrap mode to provide a non-parametric estimate of the reliability of the estimated compositions. In simulation mode, HISEA can quantify the effect of changing sample sizes; of adding or removing variables; and of adding or removing stocks. Simulation also identifies potential problems (such as high bias and variance in the composition estimators) that may arise due to different stocks being too alike.