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McLemore, B. Michael (1996). Gulf Shrimp Amendment 9 and Statistical Review
Advisory Panel; November Meeting. Memorandum to the Gulf of Mexico
Fishery Management Council, Southeast Regional Office, National Marine
Fisheries Service, St. Petersburg, FL, 2 pp.
A memorandum stating the legal position that the Council may take action
on red snapper bycatch reduction in shrimp trawls without concluding a
statistical review of the TED induced finfish bycatch reduction.
Mace, Pamela M. (1993). The Bioeconomic Consequences of Risk Averse
Fisheries Management Strategies. Draft report, P.O. Box 7357, Silver
Spring, MD, July.
This paper investigates the short and long term biological and economic
consequences of risk averse fisheries management strategies. In particular,
what circumstances are necessary for conservative strategies to outperform
less conservative and risky strategies in terms of stock size, yields, and
revenues. The more conservative the strategy, the higher the stock size;
however, the potential effects on cumulated yields and discounted revenues are
less obvious.
Mace, Pamela M. (1994). An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Current
Minimum Size for Atlantic Swordfish. ICCAT Working Document,
SCRS/94/114, Revised, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, 1315
East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD.
The benefits of the current ICCAT minimum size regulation for Atlantic
swordfish (125 cm LJFL or 25 kg round weight, with 15% tolerance by number)
were examined in terms of the gains in yield per recruit (YPR) and spawning
per recruit (SPR), and the risks of recruitment overfishing. Sensitivity
analyses showed that smaller minimum sizes combined with zero tolerance could
result in comparable levels of YPR and SPR. However, in all cases the SPR
based on recent (1991) fishing mortality rates is small relative to the level
required for population replacement. Reduced risk of recruitment overfishing
will require either a much larger minimum size, much improved survival of
undersized returns, or lower fishing mortalities overall.
Mace, Pamela M. (1994). Relationships Between Common Biological Reference
Points Used as Thresholds and Targets of Fisheries Management
Strategies. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 51:110-122.
Relationships between various biological reference points (BRPs) used to
define thresholds and targets of fisheries management strategies were examined
for a range of combinations of life history characteristics. Rank orderings
of the selected BRPs were strongly influenced by the degree of density
dependence in the underlying spawning-recruitment (S-R) relationship. The
validity of F 0.1 , F max , and F 20% (the fishing mortality at which spawning per
recruit is 20% of the maximum), and other reference fishing mortality rates as
approximations to F msy or as thresholds of over fishing is highly dependent on
life history characteristics, particularly the degree of density dependence in
the S-R relationship. It is recommended that F 40% be adopted as a target
fishing mortality rate when the S-R relationship is unknown and that threshold
levels of biomass be related to the estimated or assumed degree of density
dependence in the S-R relationship. Two new methods of calculating threshold
biomass levels are suggested as alternatives to the familiar 20% B 0 rule.
Mace, Pamela M. (1995). Meeting Report from Workshop #1 on Limited Access
for Atlantic Swordfish and Atlantic Shark Fisheries. Highly Migratory
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