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041 |aeng|bfre
043 |an-cn---
0861 |aFs70-1/2000-131E-PDF
1001 |aMorgan, M. Joanne |q(Mary Joanne), |d1961-
24514|aThe collapse of 2+3K American plaice |h[electronic resource] : |bwas it over fishing? / |cM.J. Morgan, W.B. Brodie, and D.W. Kulka.
260 |aOttawa : |bFisheries and Oceans Canada, |c2000.
300 |a17 p. : |bfig., graphs, maps, tables.
4901 |aCanadian Stock Assessment Secretariat research document, |x1480-4883 ; |v2000/131
504 |aIncludes bibliographic references (p. 8-10).
520 |aThe population of American plaice in the waters off Labrador and on the northeast Newfoundland shelf declined substantially during the mid to late 1980's, early 1990's at a time when reported catches were very low. Hutchings examined the overlap in distribution between American plaice and cod in research vessel survey data and concluded that unreported bycatch in the cod fishery could explain the decline of the Div. 2J portion of the Subarea 2 + Div. 3K stock of American plaice. This paper evaluates the method proposed by Hutchings and uses reported and observer estimates of catch to investigate potential catch levels relative to survey estimates of population abundance. This method does not appear to be a good predictor of American plaice bycatch in the cod fishery as most of the regressions were not significant and it requires extrapolation well beyond the range of the data used to build the regressions. Furthermore there was little overlap between the extent of the commercial cod fishing grounds and the distribution of American plaice in the fall surveys. For this stock, catch to survey biomass ratios were low regardless of the source of information used to estimate catch and suggest an exploitation rate that should be well below sustainable levels. These analyses support the conclusion that fishing was not the cause of the decline in this population of American plaice.
69207|2gccst|aFisheries resources
69207|2gccst|aSalt water fish
69207|2gccst|aFishing area
69207|2gccst|aFisheries management
7001 |aKulka, David W.
7001 |aBrodie, W. B.
7101 |aCanada. |bDepartment of Fisheries and Oceans.
7102 |aCanada.|bCanadian Stock Assessment Secretariat.
830#0|aCanadian Stock Assessment Secretariat research document,|x1480-4883 ; |v2000/131|w(CaOODSP)9.507740
85640|qPDF|s324 KB|uhttps://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2015/mpo-dfo/Fs70-1-2000-131-eng.pdf