Report on the Long-term Management Strategy Evaluation for Northern Shrimp (Pandalus borealis) in Division 4.a East and Subdivision 20 (PandLTMS) ...

• Main Author: ICES
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: ICES Expert Group reports (until 2018) 2023
• Subjects: Greater North Sea ICES Ecoregion; Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management; Fisheries and aquaculture; Norway; Tac; northern shrimp; Pandalus borealis
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.19284752.v1; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/Report_on_the_Long-term_Management_Strategy_Evaluation_for_Northern_Shrimp_Pandalus_borealis_in_Division_4_a_East_and_Subdivision_20_PandLTMS_/19284752/1

This report provides the technical basis to support the ICES response to the EU-Norway request to ICES on a long-term management strategy for Pandalus in Skagerrak and the Norwegian Deep. The report was prepared by correspondence by a group of scientists who are members of the Joint NAFO/ICES Pandalus Assessment Working Group (NIPAG), led by Carmen Fernández (not a NIPAG member). Two external sci-entists have reviewed the work. A Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) was developed to investigate via simulation the performance of different harvest control rules (HCR), which would be applied to the results of a stock assessment conducted in March of a given year. The catch given by the HCR would apply to the same year (January–December), and a preliminary TAC for the following year should be provided at the same time. The request indicates that, alternatively, the TAC year could go from May 1 of the assessment year to April 30 of the following year. Both TAC year options were examined in the evaluation, without ...