Initial OMP candidates for the Nightingale rock lobster fishery
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2017-07
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The performances of a number of OMP candidates are reported here. Simulation results do not vary much amongst the various candidates. For this and other reasons it is recommended that at this stage CMP3 be adopted as the new OMP. This CMP has a TAC Ceiling of 85 MT. Very little further resource protection (which is in any case already certainly adequate) is provided by a CMP with a lower TAC ceiling. All the CMPs have appropriate feedback, so that if the resource declines in the future, so will the future TAC. An added precautionary feature defines an Ilim catch rate below which TAC can decline faster than the baseline constraint under the occurrence of “Exceptional Circumstances” is also build into the CMPs.
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Johnston, S.J. and Butterworth, D.S. 2017. Initial OMP candidates for the Nightingale rock lobster fishery. MARAM document: MARAM/TRISTAN/2017/JUL/08: 11pp.