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application to the Canada-European Union turbot and Canada-United states
salmon disputes suggests consistency between the principles of the model and
reality.
Mitchell, Carlyle L. (1997). Fisheries Management in the Grand Banks, 1980-
1992 and the Straddling Stock Issue. Marine Policy, 21(1):97-109.
This paper examines fisheries management problems on the Grand Banks
that were due to divided jurisdiction between Canada s 200 mile Fisheries Zone
and the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization s (NAFO) area outside this
zone, which brought to the fore the predicaments associated with straddling
stocks. These were epitomized by the northern cod fishery. Because Canadian
scientists overestimated the stocks, northern cod became the basis of a growth
industry for Canada and for considerable fishing activity in the NAFO zone by
vessels from NAFO member and non-member countries during the 1980s. From 1985
onwards, straddling stocks became a contentious issue between Canada and NAFO
with respect to management measures and their enforcement. This issue became
particularly acute towards the end of the 1980s when the overestimation of the
northern cod stock became apparent, leading to a reduction in the TACs for
this species and to Canada s closure of this fishery in 1992. This had severe
economic implications for Canada s Atlantic Coast fishing industry but
resulted in the international acceptance of a new UN Convention for Straddling
Stocks and Highly Migratory Species in 1995.
Mitchell, Chris, C. Derning Cowles, Nevette Bowen, Rafe Petersen, and Henry
Mitcheill (1996). Building A Bycatch Strategy in the North Pacific:
Western Alaska - A Matter of Cultural and Community Survival. A report
to the National Marine Fisheries Service from the Alaska Fisheries
Development Foundation, February, 19 pp.
The report of a bycatch workshop held in Alaska to summarize the
diversity of opinions held throughout the state. Central to this report is
the idea that Western Alaskans feel that bycatch is as much of a sociological
as an economic problem. Based upon this knowledge, NMFS should be able to
design real solutions to real problems on a more localized basis.
Mitchell, John F. and Arvind Shah (1992). Report on TED Efficiency Trials
Aboard a Mexican Shrimp Trawler, A U.S./Mexico Cooperative Study
November 9-20, 1992. Foreign TED Technology Transfer Program, National
Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center,
Mississippi Laboratory, Pascagoula Facility, P.O. Drawer 1207,
Pascagoula, MS, 20 pp.
Gear specialists with the National Marine Fisheries Service and the
National Fisheries Institute of Mexico collected information on catch rates of
shrimp and bycatch from trawls equipped with super Shooter and Anthony
Weedless style TEDs aboard a Mexican shrimp trawler in November 1992.
Trawling operations were conducted in Mexican waters of the Gulf of Mexico
along the northern coast of the state of Tamaulipas.
Catch data was collected from TED versus non-TED equipped trawls during
179 hours of comparative towing. Shrimp catch per unit effort (CPUE = lb/h)
for the Super Shooter TED and corresponding control net was 5.34 and 5.53 lb/h
respectively resulting in a difference of 3.4 percent. Shrimp CPUE for the
Anthony Weedless TED and corresponding control net was 6.42 and 6.66 lb/h
respectively resulting in a difference of 3.6 percent. Differences in the
catches of shrimp and bycatch between TED equipped nets and their
corresponding control nets were not statistically significant over all phases
of the test.
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