Author:Seekings, Jeremy; Alexander, Karin; Jooste, Tracy; Matzner, IsaacDate:2004The Cape Area Study (CAS) comprises an ongoing series of surveys conducted in Cape Town.?The surveys have covered and will continue to cover a wide range of topics.?Over time, however, CAS will have a quality that is unique in South Africa ...Read morecbnd
Author:Rademeyer, Rebecca A; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2003This document presents an updated assessment of the M. paradoxus hake resource off the south and west coasts of South Africa. The previous assessment of this resource is described in Rademeyer and Butterworth (2002).Read more
Author:Johnston, Susan J; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2004The assessment conducted in 2003 has been routinely extended, taking account of a further year’s catch, CPUE and catch-at-age data. CPUE shows a continuation of the increase that commenced in 1998. Results are generally more optimistic than ...Read more
Author:Johnston, Susan J; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2005The 2005 assessment was routinely extended, taking account of a further year’s catch, CPUE and catch-at-age data. CPUE shows a continuation of the increase that commenced in 1998. However, sustainable yield estimates are generally less than ...Read more
Author:Johnston, Susan J; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2006The assessment conducted in 2006 has been routinely extended, taking account of a further year’s catch, CPUE and catch-at-age data. CPUE shows a continuation of the increase that commenced in 1998. The sustainable yield estimates are generally ...Read more
Author:Brandão, Anabela; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2006The ASPM assessment of the Prince Edward Islands toothfish resource by Brandão and Butterworth (2005) that permitted annual fluctuations about a deterministic stockrecruitment relationship is updated to take account of further catch, GLM ...Read more
Author:Rademeyer, Rebecca A; Glazer, Jean PatriciaDate:2006The algorithm for the 2006 Operational Management Procedure (OMP) to provide TAC recommendations for the South African Merluccius paradoxus and M. capensis resources is empirical, increasing or decreasing the TAC in relation to the magnitude ...Read more
Author:Johnston, Susan J; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2007The assessment conducted in 2006 (WG/06/06/WCRL3) has been routinely extended, taking account of a further year’s catch, CPUE and catch-at-age data. The observed CPUE shows a slight decrease for 2005 (2005/06 season). The sustainable yield ...Read more
Author:Johnston, Susan J; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2007The assessment conducted in 2006 (WG/06/06/WCRL3) has been routinely extended (except that the Baranov equation has been replaced by Pope’s approximation), taking account of a further year’s catch, CPUE and catch-at-age data. The observed ...Read more
Author:Brandão, Anabela; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2006The ASPM assessment of the Prince Edward Islands toothfish resource by Brandão and Butterworth (2006) that permitted annual fluctuations about a deterministic stock-recruitment relationship is updated to take account of further catch, GLM ...Read more
Author:Rademeyer, Rebecca A; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2007This paper presents a routine update of the South African hake assessment, including new commercial (catches and
CPUE) and survey (abundance estimates and catch-at-age) data. Only one scenario (M1-H1-C1-SR2) of the Reference
Set, which is ...Read more
Author:Rademeyer, Rebecca A; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2008This paper presents a routine update of the South African hake assessment, including new commercial (catches and CPUE) and survey (abundance estimates) data. This update is for a “baseline” assessment, chosen to correspond to the scenario ...Read more
Author:Johnston, Susan J; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2009The west coast rock lobster assessment of 20061 based on data to 2004 is updated to include data up to 2008. Over the last four years the exploitable biomass trend is upwards for Areas 7 and 8 and the resource as a whole, but downwards for ...Read more
Author:Johnston, Susan J; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2010A simple replacement yield model is fitted to CPUE and annual catch data from 1997 for the four islands of the Tristan da Cunha group. The results suggest that the current TAC be maintained, with a slight increase (perhaps 5 tons) to the ...Read morecb
Author:Rademeyer, Rebecca ADate:2011As required under the annual OMP review process, this paper presents a routine update of the South African hake
Reference Case assessment (RS1) (Rademeyer and Butterworth, 2010), including new commercial (catches and CPUE)
and survey ...Read more
Author:Rademeyer, Rebecca ADate:2012This paper presents a routine update of the South African hake Reference Case assessment (RS1) (Rademeyer and Butterworth, 2010), including new commercial (catches and CPUE) and survey (abundance estimates and length distribution) data. This ...Read more
Author:Johnston, Susan J; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2012Initial updated assessments are developed for the South Coast rock lobster resource incorporating the recently revised estimates of somatic growth rate by area developed by OLRAC, and fitting to area-specific CPUE and scientific catch-at-length ...Read more
Author:Rademeyer, Rebecca A; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2013A Reference Set (RS) of 12 scenarios was selected as the primary basis to be used to simulation test candidates for OMP-2011 (Rademeyer and Butterworth, 2010). This paper presents an update of this RS, based on updated commercial data (catches, ...Read more
Author:Rademeyer, Rebecca A; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2013The Reference Case assessment of the SA hake resource is updated using unchanged
methodology from that used in developing the existing OMP, but with revised and updated
data sets. The only change of particular note is the inclusion of new ...Read more