This document presents a summary of the 2012 benchmark stock assessment for alewife and blueback herring, collectively referred to as river herring.
Stock Assessment Reports
Scientific evaluations of fish stock status, providing critical data on population sizes, health, and trends to inform management decisions.
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Includes State/Jurisdiction-specific Stock Status Summaries
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Includes Terms of Reference & Advisory Report, Technical Committee Response to Peer Review Report, and Coastwide Assessment
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The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Winter Flounder Technical Committee conducted a winter flounder otolith aging comparison study in 1998, to measure interpretative consistency among four readers (Appendix I). Bias measured by this study related to systematic differences detected among comparisons between readers, but did not address accuracy relative to true age.
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The Section took emergency action to close the northern shrimp fishery on February 17, 2012. Because harvest had averaged about 400 mt per week and the fishery was known to have considerable late reporting, landings were projected to have already exceeded the total allowable catch (TAC) of 2,211 mt at the time of closure.
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The updated stock assessment was completed by adding catch and indices through 2010 to the previous 1982-2009 assessment. The result of the analysis shows that bluefish is not overfished or experiencing overfishing.
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