News Summary July 6, 2017
Today's Main Story: West Coast Pacific Ocean Perch Stock Assessment Results Shows Dramatic Improvement
Today's main story focuses on how nobody saw it coming: Pacific ocean perch rockfish (POP), a West Coast species of rockfish listed as overfished and one that has constrained fisheries for decades, is likely rebuilt. Susan Chambers writes that it was probably never overfished to begin with, according to a new stock assessment. The estimated depletion (relative spawning output) is 75 percent, which is above the target of 40 percent. At a 95 percent confidence interval, the estimated depletion has been above 40 percent since at least 2008 and possibly before.
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