Small Bit of Good News for Opilio From Council Meeting in Kodiak
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton June 8, 2016
It was a quiet start to what may become a very contentious N. Pacific Council meeting in Kodiak this week.
Yesterday the SSC and the AP began their meetings.
During the presentation of the crab plan team to the AP, there was a discussion of the model used for estimating the overfishing and ABC level for snow crab. Last year (2016) the scientists responsible had difficulty with the model, and it was not fitting the data very well. As a result, they had to recommend an expanded buffer due to the uncertainty.
This contributed to the low harvest levels this year, once survey data was accounted for.
The same problem did not exist with the other crab fishery models ...
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