Implications of recruitment, distribution and availability of stocks for management of South Africa's Western Cape purse-seine fishery
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1979
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South Africa's Western Cape purse-seine fishery is situated off the country's western seaboard in the highly productive waters of the southern Benguela Current system (Cushing 1969). Management of the multi-species resource is the responsibility of the government's Department of Industries and since 1950 a large volume of data relating to performances of contributing species has been collected. Recent analyses have indicated an oversubscription of effort, a sequential depletion of the more valuable stocks and, consequently, a present reliance upon less favourable species (Newman and Crawford 1979, Crawford et al. in press). These adverse trends have been precipitated, in part at least, by ineffective legislation, which has resulted from a past failure to appreciate that exceptionally good year classes occur infrequently (Newman and Crawford in- press). Optimal ways of harvesting strong cohorts, or of avoiding overexploitation in the event of recruitment failure, remain to be explored.
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Bibliography: pages 281-290.
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Crawford, R. 1979. Implications of recruitment, distribution and availability of stocks for management of South Africa's Western Cape purse-seine fishery. University of Cape Town.