Author:Butterworth, Doug S; Coetzee, JanetDate:2019A list is put forward of suggestions and criteria to provide a basis for developing a sardine directed TAC and by-catch TAB for 2019Read more
Author:de Moor, Carryn; Coetzee, Janet; Butterworth, DougDate:2020A prior distribution for the bias of the hydro‐acoustic survey estimates of the biomass of the South African
anchovy is developed by considering the bias associated with the individual sources of error.Read more
Author:de Moor, Carryn; Coetzee, Janet; Butterworth, DouglasDate:2022Prior distributions for the bias of the hydro‐acoustic survey estimates of the biomass of the South African round herring are developed by considering the bias associated with the individual sources of errorRead more
Author:de Moor, Carryn; Coetzee, JanetDate:2019As only part of the small pelagic hydroacoustic survey has been analysed thus far, an interim initial anchovy TAC is proposed to enable the 2020 anchovy fishing season to begin timeously.Read more
Author:Coetzee, Janet; Butterworth, Douglas; van der Lingen, Carl; de Moor, CarrynDate:2016This paper summarises proposals on the many and varied issues that need to be addressed in reaching a decision on a possible increase in the maximum directed sardine catch that may be taken west of Cape Agulhas during 2016. It also includes ...Read more
Author:de Moor, Carryn; Coetzee, JanetDate:2019Following the declaration of Exceptional Circumstances for sardine, a TAC and TABs for sardine for 2019 were recommended based on short-term projections rather than on OMP-18. The methods used to obtain those projections are described. The ...Read more
Author:Coetzee, Janet; de Moor, Carryn; Butterworth, Doug SDate:Nov 2018The sardine fishery is an important component of the South African purse-seine fishery, the largest commercial fishery in South Africa (by landed mass). This fishery, initially established on the West Coast, but with some subsequent infrastructure ...Read more
Author:de Moor, Carryn; Coetzee, Janet; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2019The analyses undertaken to provide a scientific recommendation for the 2019 sardine TAC and TAB, under
Exceptional Circumstances were subject to a number of more serious uncertainties than would normally apply. Given
the critically low level ...Read more