Author:C L, Cunningham; D S, ButterworthDate:2004A revision of the Operational Management Procedure (OMP) to be used for setting South African sardine and anchovy total allowable catches (TACs) and sardine total allowable bycatches (TABs) was adopted by the Marine and Coastal Management ...Read more
Author:de Moor, Carryn LDate:2017As the November survey estimate of sardine abundance was less than 300 000t, the Exceptional Circumstances rule was used resulting in an initial directed >14cm sardine TAC being recommended at the beginning of the year.Read more
Author:Brandão, AnabelaDate:2017This paper presents two SLAs for West Greenland fin whales which are variants of SLAs that have been previously reported. Candidate SLAs are presented ranging from providing complete satisfaction of the conservation performance criterion for ...Read more
Author:Brandão, AnabelaDate:2017This paper provides the results of a simulation exercise to determine the precision of the 5th percentile as the number of replicates increases. The plots below show the average with 95% confidence intervals (on the left) and the standard ...Read more
Author:Punt, André E; Brandão, AnabelaDate:2017The framework developed during the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Scientific Committee to evaluate an ‘interim allowance’ strategy is applied to West Greenland humpback whales based on the agreed Strike Limit Algorithm for these whales. The values ...Read more
Author:C L, de Moor; J, CoetzeeDate:2014This document lists the standard data required prior to the commencement of the next assessments of
South African anchovy and sardine, as well as some ideas for changes to the use of these data and the
inclusion of some potential new data. ...Read more
Author:Éva E, PlagányiDate:2007The management of abalone stocks worldwide is complicated by factors such as poaching
combined with the difficulties of assessing a sedentary (but not immobile) resource that is
often patchily distributed. The South African abalone Haliotis ...Read more