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Framework for Use of Research Vessel Survey Data to Assess Secondary Groundfish Stocks in the Maritimes Region

Regional Peer Review – Maritimes Region

December 16-17, 2014
Dartmouth, NS

Chairperson: Kristian Curran

Context

In Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s (DFO’s) Maritimes Region, a protocol describing priority stocks for fishery assessment and management departmental resource allocation has been produced with an overall objective of better alignment between the science provided and the resulting management strategy.  This protocol separates stocks into Primary and Secondary categories that define the difference in the DFO response to requests for advice and allocation of departmental human and financial resources.  Secondary groundfish stocks include groundfish stocks being caught by the groundfish fisheries, or caught as bycatch in other fisheries, where the value and volume of landings of that stock are relatively small, and where the stock has not otherwise been identified as a priority by the DFO Maritimes Region (e.g., because of an important ecological role played by the stock or because the stock has important cultural uses). Formal stock assessments are not conducted by DFO Science for secondary stocks in the Maritimes Region. However, trends in Research Vessel survey indices are reported annually for some secondary groundfish stocks. Research vessel survey information has been used to set reference points for some groundfish stocks in the Maritimes Region, e.g., Eastern Pollock (DFO 2012).

Objectives

The objective of this meeting is to develop a methodology for using research vessel survey data to assess secondary groundfish stocks in the Maritimes Region, and, more specifically, to provide advice on an appropriate method for calculating reference points for the following secondary groundfish stocks:

Expected Publications

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References

DFO. 2012. Reference points consistent with the precautionary approach for a variety of stocks in the Maritimes Region. DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Sci. Advis. Rep. 2012/035.

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