Assessment of the American Plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides) stock in NAFO subdivision 3Ps in 2019 / M.J. Morgan, R. Rogers, D. Ings, and L. Wheeland.: Fs70-5/2020-019E-PDF

"There has been a moratorium on direct fishing of American Plaice since September of 1993. Since then, there has been only by-catch of American Plaice in other fisheries. Catch has been less than 200 t in all but one year (2017) since 2011. From the mid-1980s to 1990 there was a large decline in both biomass and abundance indices. Indices of stock size were lowest in the early 1990s. There was a general increase over the 1992-2011 period for both biomass and abundance indices with both indices varying essentially without trend since"--Abstract, page iv.

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Publication information
Department/Agency Canada. Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Newfoundland and Labrador Region.
Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat.
Title Assessment of the American Plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides) stock in NAFO subdivision 3Ps in 2019 / M.J. Morgan, R. Rogers, D. Ings, and L. Wheeland.
Series title Research document, 1919-5044 ; 2020/019
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Other language editions [French]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) "May 2020."
Title from cover.
Issued also in French under title: Évaluation de 2019 du stock de plie canadienne (Hippoglossoides platessoides) dans la sous-division 3Ps de l’OPANO.
Includes bibliographical references (page 4).
Publishing information Ottawa ON : Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat, 2020.
©2020
Author / Contributor Morgan, M. Joanne (Mary Joanne), 1961- author.
Description 1 online resource (iv, 17 pages) : maps, graphs.
Catalogue number
  • Fs70-5/2020-019E-PDF
Subject terms American plaice fisheries -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
Fish stock assessment -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
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