Author:Johnston, Susan J; Butterworth, Doug SDate:Sep 2016FISHERIES/2016/SEP/SWG-DM/51 provides a full description of the current stock assessment model for the South African Horse Mackerel. This document provides the updated 2016 assessment results for a number of model variants.Read more
Author:Glazer, J P; Butterworth, Doug SDate:Oct 2016The squid stock assessment model was last implemented in 2013 and at that time included data to 2012. An additional 3 years of data are now available and these have been included in an updated assessment. Sensitivity to incorporating ...Read morecb
Author:Johnston, S J; Butterworth, Doug SDate:Sep 2017FISHERIES/2016/SEP/SWG-DM/51 provided a full description of the current stock assessment model for the South African Horse Mackerel. FISHERIES/2016/SEP/SWG-DM/52 reported updated 2016 assessments for a number of model variants where the ...Read more
Author:Johnston, S J; Butterworth, Doug SDate:Aug 2017The 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 ...Read morecb
Author:Johnston, Susan; Butterworth, Doug SDate:May 2018This document reports the 2018 GLMM-standardised Tristan lobster CPUE compared with the current OMP target levels that are in place for each island.Read more
Author:Ross-Gillespie, Andrea; Butterworth, Doug S; Glazer, Jean; Fairweather, TraceyDate:2019Specifications and projection results for the 2018 Operational Management Procedure
used for setting South African hake Total Allowable Catches are provided along with
various background information, including details of the metarule processes.Read more
Author:Johnston, Susan; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2019This document details the current 2018 Reference Case Operating Model which is to be proposed to be used for simulation testing of a new OMP for South Coast rock lobster.Read more
Author:Johnston, Susan; Butterworth, Doug SDate:Oct 2018The assessments for the two hypotheses (reduced catchability and a one-off additional mortality event) for the recent reduced Desert Diamond catch rate are updated to take one further year’s data into account. The 2017 CPUE somewhat increased ...Read more
Author:Johnston, Susan; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2018The 2017 assessment of the resource is updated given two further years of catch-at-length data now available. Recruitment is estimated to have increased over the last two seasons compared to the previous three seasons when recruitment was ...Read more
Author:Johnston, Susan; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2019The 2017 assessment of the resource for South Coast rock lobster is updated given the two further years of catch-at-length data and one further year of CPUE data now available. Recruitment is estimated to have decreased over the last two ...Read more
Author:Johnston, Susan; Butterworth, Doug SDate:Nov 2018A new set of 2018 assessments for all five super-areas for the west coast rock lobster resource has recently been completed. These provide the bases for projecting the resource forwards (in each super-area) under alternative future catches ...Read more
Author:de Moor, Carryn L; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2009A 2-stock, 2-area hypothesis for the South African sardine resource is being developed, with the following boundaries: i) A “western” stock distributed throughout the “western area”, defined as the area west of Cape Agulhas ii) An “eastern” ...Read more
Author:Rademeyer, R; Butterworth, Doug S; Plagányi, Éva EDate:2008The bases for historical catch limits placed on the hake fishery are reviewed in brief for earlier years and then in some depth over the period from 1991 when the Operational Management Procedure (OMP) approach was introduced for this fishery. ...Read more
Author:Butterworth, Doug S; Ianelli, J N; Hilborn, RDate:2003Assessment of the status of southern bluefin tuna (SBT) by Australia and Japan has used a method (ADAPT) that imposes a number of structural restrictions, and is similar to methods used for a number of stocks world-wide. A flexible method for ...Read more
Author:Coetzee, J C; de Moor, C L; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2019The 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:Plagányi, Éva E; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2005A summary is presented of the results obtained from the 2005 Reference-case model that was fit to Zones A, B, CNP, CP and D in combination (hereafter referred to as the “combined ABCD model”). The full details of the spatial- and age-structured ...Read more
Author:Johnston, Susan J; Butterworth, Doug SDate:2009This Addendum adds results for the Migrant and Tourist models to those reported for the Sabbatical and Resident models in the original paper. Results for the C1 sub-stock are hardly affected, but recovery is slightly less advanced for the C3 ...Read more
Author:Johnston, Susan; Butterworth, Doug SDate:Aug 2018This Addendum provides further results for the two-step TAC phase down option, where the distribution of the TAC amongst the Super-areas is changed. The shifts from A8+ are to either or both of A34 and A7. The Results are shown in the Tables ...Read more