TERMS OF REFERENCE Background

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Newfoundland; northern shrimp
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.529.4911; http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas/csas/schedule-horraire/details/2007/05/shrimp_tor_e.pdf

Northern shrimp have been harvested off Labrador since the late 1970’s and off the northeastern coast of Newfoundland since the late 1980’s. Stock harvest advice is provided through the Regional Advisory Process (RAP). The most recent stock assessment was summarized in a series of Traffic Light Performance Indicator Reports. The Traffic Light approach was introduced by Caddy (1996) and adapted for shrimp by Koeller et al. (2000). However, critics felt that a weighting scheme for assessment indices and the determination of overall stock status required further development. Therefore, this meeting is being convened to review indices used in the current assessment, develop a weighting scheme for each, and determine objective means of evaluating overall stock status.