E. Gulf of Maine – Georges Bank American plaice Assessment for 2012

• Main Authors: Loretta O’brien, Josh Dayton
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: proportion of the landings are in the small market category (Table E4). Sampling intensity (met; Garm; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.224.5810; http://nefsc.noaa.gov/publications/crd/crd1206/americanplaice.pdf

American plaice is distributed along the Northwest Atlantic continental shelf from southern Labrador to Rhode Island in relatively deep waters (Collette and Klein-MacPhee 2002). Off the U.S. coast, American plaice are managed as a single stock in the Gulf of Maine-Georges Bank region (Figure E1) whe...