S. Atlantic Halibut by Jon Brodziak 1.0 Background

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• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.172.7403; http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/publications/crd/crd0216/pdfs/0216.2s.pdf

The Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) is distributed from Labrador to southern New England in the northwest Atlantic (Bigelow and Schroeder 1953). The Atlantic halibut stock within Gulf of Maine-Georges Bank waters (NAFO Subarea 5) has been exploited since the 1830s. The Gulf of Maine-Georges Bank Atlantic halibut stock was last assessed in 2001 by the Northern Demersal Working Group (NEFSC 2001). The stock was overfished based on research survey indices and is not expected to rebuild in the near future. In this report, we update the Atlantic halibut assessment using fishery data for 2001 and available survey data for 2001-2002. Updated survey biomass indices are used for stock status determination.