| Summary: | Annual Meeting International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries, June 1977, Appendix I.-- 5 pages, 1 table The ad hoe Working Group on Shrimp met during 24-27 November 1976 to assess the status of the off-shore shrimp stocks in Subarea 1. Scientists attended from Canada, Denmark (Greenland and Faroese labor-atories), Japan, Norway. Spain and USSR. At the June 1976 Annual Meeting, STACRES recommended that the total allowable catch (TAG) from the offshore fishing grounds should not exceed 26,000 tons annually, including all discards, but the Commission decided to defer the setting of the TAC and allocations for 1977 to this Special Meeting when new information would be available. Consequently, the Working Group reviewed a considerable amount of new information relating to both the general biology of the species and stock size estimates: Res. Doc. 76/XII/149, 150, 151, 152, 154, 155, 156, 166, 168, 172 and several working papers
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