Joint NAFO\ICES Pandalus Assessment Working Group (NIPAG) ...

• Main Author: ICES
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: ICES Scientific Reports 2022
• Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture; Atlantic, Northeast ICES Ecoregion; FAO area 27; Oceanic Northeast Atlantic ICES Ecoregion; Faroes ICES Ecoregion; Greenland Sea ICES Ecoregion; Icelandic Waters ICES Ecoregion; Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management; Greenland; Norway; Tac; Faroes; Greenland Sea; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.19692181; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/Joint_NAFO_ICES_Pandalus_Assessment_Working_Group_NIPAG_/19692181

The NAFO/ICES Pandalus Assessment Group (NIPAG), met to assess the Pandalus stock in divi-sions 3.a and 4.a east. The objective was to assess stock status and to draft advice according to the ICES MSY approach and the current EU and Norway Long-term Management Strategy (LTMS). The LTMS requires ICES to provide both an update in-year TAC advice for 2022 and an initial TAC advice for the first two quarters of 2023. A length-based Stock Synthesis (SS3) statistical framework was used to assess the status of the stock based on updated input data (commercial catches for 2021 and survey catches from Janu-ary 2022). The assessment model and reference points were updated during the 2022 benchmark (WKPRAWN 2022) and now contains hermaphroditic parameters, two areas, and six fleets. The model is also now fit using a novel ensemble approach whereby three different natural mortality rates are considered. The assessment demonstrated that the fishing pressure on the stock is be-low FMSY and that spawning–stock size is ...