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Hawaii FEP - Western Pacific Fishery Council

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Source: Moffitt et al. (2006)An updated stock assessment and overfishing risk assessment was completed by PIFSC in 2008(Brodziak et al. 2008). Conducting the stock assessment on bottomfish throughout the <strong>Hawaii</strong>anarchipelago has been consistent with the <strong>Council</strong> and NMFS decision to treat <strong>Hawaii</strong> bottomfishas a single management unit (Amendment 3 to the Bottomfish FMP). Recent stock assessmentshave allowed fishery scientists to decompose the results into the three sub-areas: the MHI andthe two NWHI limited entry zones. PIFSC scientists used information developed in the recentlycompleted bottomfish CPUE standardization workshop to produce updated total allowable catchprojections with associated risks of overfishing (Brodziak et al. 2008).The assessment foundthat the <strong>Hawaii</strong>an Archipelagic bottomfish stocks are in better conditionthan the previous stock assessment indicated and concluded that, at present, <strong>Hawaii</strong>an bottomfishare currently not experiencing overfishing and are not overfished ; however the MHI remainvulnerable to excessive fishing effort.147

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