Terms of Reference

Determination of spawner abundance and biological characteristics for striped bass to 2021

Regional Science Response Process – Gulf Region

December 14, 2021
Virtual Meeting

Chairperson: Mark LaFlamme

Context

The most recent peer-reviewed assessment of the Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) population of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, DFO Gulf Region, provided information up to and including the 2019 spawning year (DFO 2020). Monitoring of the spawning population in the Northwest Miramichi has continued on an annual basis. Annual updates of spawner abundance and biological characteristics of the Striped Bass population have been provided with the most recent one for the 2019 spawning year (DFO 2020). DFO Fisheries and Aquaculture Management Branch requested an update for 2021 of the spawner abundance and biological characteristics of the Striped Bass population of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Objectives

The objective of the meeting is to review the estimates of abundance and the biological characteristics of the Striped Bass spawning population of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence for 2021.

Expected Publication

• Science Response

Expected Participation

• Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) (Ecosystems and Oceans Science, and Ecosystems and Fisheries Management)

References

• DFO. 2011. Allowable harm assessment of Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Sci. Advis. Rep. 2011/014.
• DFO. 2020. Update of spawner abundance and biological characteristics of Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence to 2019. DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Sci. Resp. 2020/009.