S. Atlantic halibut by Jon Brodziak and Laurel Col 1.0 Background

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• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.185.1708; http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/publications/crd/crd0513/pdfs/garm2005s.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 2002 (Brodziak 2002). Based on that assessment, the stock was overfished (B2001 was 7 % of BMSY) and it was unknown whether overfishing was occurring. In this report, we update the Atlantic halibut assessment using fishery data and available survey data for 2002-2004. Updated survey biomass indices are used for stock status determination.