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Monitoring and Compliance - 2007 Cod Fisheries - March 26, 2008

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Slide 1: Monitoring and Compliance - 2007 Cod Fisheries - March 26, 2008 - Conservation & Protection Division

Slide 1: Monitoring and Compliance - 2007 Cod Fisheries

Slide 2: C&P Division

The Conservation & Protection (C&P) Division carries out fisheries monitoring and compliance-related work for DFO

This presentation is about monitoring and compliance in 2007 cod fisheries.

Slide 3: How did we monitor cod fisheries?

Commercial/Stewardship fishery:

  1. At-Sea Observers
  2. Dockside Monitoring Program
  3. Fishery Officers (land, sea and air)

Recreational fishery:

  1. Fishery Officers (land, sea and air)

Slide 4: At Sea Observers

Slide 5: Dockside Monitoring

All stewardship cod fishery landings were subject to the Dockside Monitoring Program

Slide 6: Dockside Monitoring

Commercial cod fishery landings were also subject to the Dockside Monitoring Program

Slide 7: Monitoring Fishery Officer Patrols

There are ~ 100 Fishery Officers stationed in NL Region.

In 2007:

Officers spent 6,452 hours on the recreational groundfish fishery:

4,460 patrol hours and 1,992 hrs on other activities
2,051 vessel checks and 4,599 persons checked

Officers spent 16,266 hours on the commercial / stewardship cod fishery:

5,984 patrol hours and 10,274 on other activities (mostly investigations)
949 vessel checks and 1185 persons checked

Slide 8: Recreational Fishery Monitoring

Fishery Officers recorded daily estimates, for their areas of responsibility, of:

Estimates based on observations during patrols, knowledge of local area, and on other available information.

Information on weather conditions, patrols and inspections also recorded.

Slide 9: Recreational Fishery Monitoring

Fishery Officer information was rolled up by Detachments on a weekly basis, and sent to RHQ for roll-up.

Slide 10: Monitoring of Rec. Fishery Weather

Weather Conditions in the 2007

Slide 11: Monitoring of Rec. Fishery - Participation 2007

Estimated number of participants by NAFO Division and week
NAFO Div Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Total
2J 190 129 148 282 168 917
3K 4,461 3,566 2,856 2,923 3,561 17,366
3L 3,190 3,962 4,806 3,846 12,402 28,206
3PN 820 564 626 336 824 3,170
3PS 1,486 1,765 1,806 912 1,201 7,170
4R 2,635 3,422 2,844 2,151 1,289 12,341
ALL 12,782 13,408 13,086 10,450 19,445 69,170

Slide 12: Monitoring of Rec. Fishery - Landings 2007

Estimated total weight of cod landed (kg) by NAFO Division and week
NAFO Div Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Total
2J 581 363 729 1,706 1,706 5,085
3K 28,003 23,597 20,037 26,289 42,257 140,182
3L 28,141 25,669 37,375 24,462 110,085 225,733
3PN 4,616 2,820 3,326 2,442 5,364 18,567
3PS 12,816 15,455 14,948 7,448 11,578 62,244
4R 15,154 24,827 19,186 12,628 6,069 77,865
ALL 89,311 92,730 95,600 74,974 177,059 529,675

Slide 13: Monitoring of Rec. Fishery - Landings 2007

Estimated cumulative weekly catches by NAFO Division

Estimated cumulative weekly catches by NAFO Division

Slide 14: Monitoring of Rec. Fishery - Summary

Summary of weather conditions, number of participants, and catches – All NL

Summary of weather conditions

Slide 15: Monitoring of Rec. Fishery - Fish Size

Observed fish size (kg) by week and NAFO Division

Slide 16: Monitoring of Rec. Fishery - Inspection Rates

  Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Totals
Est. # persons participating 12,782 13,408 13,086 10,450 19,445 69,170
Est. # of boat trips 4,743 5,105 4,885 3,944 7,823 26,500
# of persons checked 930 519 756 540 1854 4,599
# of boats checked 362 237 323 227 902 2,051
Fisher inspection rate 7.3% 3.9% 5.8% 5.2% 9.5% 6.6%
Boat inspection rate 7.6% 4.6% 6.6% 5.8% 11.5% 7.7%

Slide 17: Compliance - "Occurrences"

Fishery Officers recorded a total of 648 "Occurrences" (including complaints, etc)

Cod occurrances
Division Commercial/
Stewardship
Fishery
Recreational
Fishery
Total
2J 7 2 9
3K 60 7 67
3L 54 65 119
3Ps 121 18 139
3Pn 0 1 1
4R 298 15 313
Total 540 108 648

Slide 18: Compliance - Violations

There were a significant number of violations detected in both the commercial / stewardship fishery and the recreational cod fishery.

Slide 19: Compliance - Violations

Compliance Violations
  Division Charges
Laid of
Pending
Seizures -
Persons
Unknown
Written
Warnings
Total
Commercial & Stewardship 2J
3k
3L
3PS
4R
SubTotal
-
6
3
32
44
85
-
-
9
1
1
11
7
34
10
25
223
299
7
49
14
57
268
395
Recreational Cod 3K
3L
3PN
3PS
4R
SubTotal
6
41
2
9
9
67
  2
14

7
7
30
8
55
2
16
16
97
  Grand Total 152 11 329 492

Slide 20: Compliance - Violations

The 64 charges laid in the commercial / stewardship fishery arising from only 25 separate incidents, and were for:

The 56 charges in the recreational fishery arose from 28 separate incidents, and were for:

Slide 21: Compliance - Recreational Violations

Violations in recent NL recreational groundfish fisheries by year (all NL)

Violations recreational groundfish fisheries by year (all NL)

Slide 22: Summary - Recreational Fishery

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