Annual Catch Limits
Annual catch limits are amounts of fish allowed to be caught in a
year. The 2007 amendments to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation
and Management Act required fishery management plans to establish
mechanisms for specifying annual catch limits at such levels that
overfishing does not occur. Additionally, the act calls for measures
to ensure accountability with these limits, and that the limits do not
exceed the scientific recommendations made by the regional fishery
management councils’ scientific committees. More info:
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/msa2007/catchlimits.htm
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/msa2007/docs/qanda_072809.pdf (ACL
Q&A's)
Workshop on Annual
Catch Limits, May 21-22, 2009, 9 am, Traynor Room AFSC, Seattle.
AGENDA;
Working Documents:
A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Setting
Buffers Between Fishery Management Targets and Limits
(revised)
Definition of Risk Aversion
A general method to
adjust catch limits/targets with survey uncertainty
Addressing
scientific uncertainty when making fishing level recommendations to
avoid overfishing
Probabilistic approaches to
setting catch levels
Use
of productivity and susceptibility indices to determine the
vulnerability of a stock: with example applications to six U.S.
fisheries.;
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/msa2007/vulnerability.htm
FMP Action Plans:
Draft
Action Plan for Annual Catch Limit
Amendments to the Groundfish FMPs
of the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska
ACL
Actions for Crab FMP
ACL Actions for Scallop FMP
ABC
Overages from 2006-2008
POWERPOINTS:
ACL Powerpoint Stram/DiCosimo
ACL Powerpoint Jernigan
Determining the Vulnerability of stocks
Powerpoint (Spencer)
Other Species Powerpoint (Ormseth)
Control Rules and Uncertainty
Powerpoint (Methot)
Revisions to the NS1 Guidelines
Powerpoint
What do we need for simple P* PPT
(Hanselman)
Using Survey Uncertainty to set ACLs
PPT (Hanselman)
Probability based catch levels
PPT (Shertzer)
Decision Theoretic Approach PPT
(Thompson)
ACL PPT (Thompson)
Scallop ACL Compliance Issues
PPT(Stram)
