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Portland, ME – The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Northern Shrimp Section (Section) initiated an amendment to consider implementing a new stock monitoring tool, termed the wake-up index, for Gulf of Maine northern shrimp which would inform when an ongoing moratorium should be re-evaluated if there are signs of improved stock condition. While the amendment…
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Review 2023 Traffic Light Analysis and Discuss Future of Data Updates (K. Drew); Review Management Strategy Evaluation Work Group Discussions;Technical Committee Report on Wake-Up Index (K. Drew); Review of Possible Management Approaches (C. Tuohy)
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The traffic light analysis of 2023 data indicated no improvement in status, with indices of abundance, spawning stock biomass, and recruitment at new time-series lows. Recruitment has been below the 20th percentile of the 1984-2017 reference period in 9 of the last 11 years. Recent environmental conditions continue to be unfavorable for Gulf of Maine…
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Prepared for the Commissioner Manual
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The traffic light analysis of 2022 data indicated no improvement in status, with indices of abundance, spawning stock biomass, and recruitment at new time-series lows.
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To look at potential effects of losing information from the Summer Survey in the near term, the Northern Shrimp Technical Committee (NSTC) compared the results from the current northern shrimp stock assessment model that used different configurations of input data that included truncating the Summer Survey from 2018-2021.
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The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Northern Shrimp Section (Section) has extended the moratorium on commercial and recreational fishing for northern shrimp through 2024. This action responds to the results of the 2021 Stock Assessment Update, which indicates the Gulf of Maine northern shrimp population remains depleted.
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This stock assessment update presents new data compiled since 2018, and results from the accepted statistical catch‐atlength model and traffic light analyses.
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