RECOMMENDATIONS ON ROCK LOBSTER TACs FOR THE TRISTAN GROUP OF ISLANDS FOR THE 2017/18 SEASON
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2017-08
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OMPs have recently been accepted as the basis to recommend TACs for Tristan, Inaccessible and Gough islands. Given that for Inaccessible and Gough the recent catch rates continue to be above the associated OMP’s target catch rate, the OMPs indicate increases to the TACs for both islands for the 2016 season:
Inaccessible: 81 MT to 85 MT
Gough: 110 MT to 116 MT
The updated OMP for Tristan sets the TAC for 2017 at 120 MT.
The newly developed OMP for Nightingale sets the TAC at either 75 MT or 78.75 MT depending on which final value for the TACceiling is selected for the OMP (either 75 MT or 85 MT).
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Butterworth, D.S. and Johnston, S.J. 2017. Recommendations on rock lobster TACs for the Tristan group of islands for the 2017/18 season. MARAM document: MARAM/TRISTAN/2017/AUG/09: 8pp.