PACIFIC OCEAN PERCH by Paul D. Spencer and James N. Ianelli Executive Summary

• Main Authors: Review Of The, Paul D. Spencer, James N. Ianelli
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Pacific; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.13.7334; http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/refm/docs/2001/bspop.pdf

stimated rather than assumed constant. (3) The foreign and domestic fishery is modeled with a single selectivity curve. Changes in the Assessment Results (1) A summary of the 2001 ABC's relative to the 2000 recommendations is as follows (the 2000 results are the sum from the separate eastern Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands models): Assessment Year 2000 2001 ABC 11,940 t 14,776 t OFL 13,885 t 17,510 t . INTRODUCTION Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus) inhabit the outer continental shelf and upper slope regions of the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. In previous assessments, the management of Pacific ocean perch (POP) in these areas has been divided into two geographic units corresponding to the eastern Bering Sea slope and the Aleutian Islands region. POP biomass in the Aleutian Islands (AI) region is larger than that in the eastern Bering Sea (EBS) region. Pacific ocean perch, and four other associated species of rockfish (northern rockfish, S. polyspinis; rougheye rockfish, S.