Implications to existing OMP of the 2010 updated assessments of the south coast rock lobster resource

Abstract

Johnston and Butterworth (2008) reported expected results for the final OMP 2008 for the South Coast Rock Lobster fishery. This OMP 1. has a 5% maximum TAC change constraint, and 2. has a median anticipated sp B (2025/2006) of 1.20 under operating Model 3 (MARAM TVS). Recently, a programming glitch in the operating models has been discovered. The result of correcting this glitch is reported in Johnston and Butterworth (2010). Here we compare the OMP 2008 expected performance statistics using the original 2008 operating models with those produced using the corrected operating models conditioned on the data available at that time. The current “OMP 2008” was tuned using the original 2008 Model 3 operating model.