2017 updated South Coast Rock Lobster assessment results
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2017-08
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University of Cape Town
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The 2017 assessment of the resource is updated given two further years of data now available. Recruitment is estimated to have increased over the last two seasons compared to the previous three seasons when recruitment was estimated to be poor. The spawning biomass trajectory is steady recent years. Current spawning biomass is estimated to be 32% of K.
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Johnston, S.J. and Butterworth, D.S. 2017. 2017 updated south coast rock lobster assessment results. DAFF Branch Fisheries document: FISHERIES/2017/AUG/SWG-SCRL/06: 16pp.