11-05-2013, 06:11 AM
No worries - people spereading the word on meetings like this can get the word out better than anything else!
The Council is currently gearing up for setting 2014 specifications and there is a lot of info linked on this page: [url="http://www.mafmc.org/ssc-meetings/2013/april-may"]http://www.mafmc.org/ssc-meetings/2013/april-may[/url]. The fishery informational document and the NEFSC Biological Update under Longfin Squid summarize what we know about longfin squid (used to be called Loligo but some taxonomists decided to confuse everybody and chage the name to Doryteuthis (Amerigo) pealeii). The link to last years process, [url="http://www.mafmc.org/ssc-meetings/may-2012"]http://www.mafmc.org/ssc-meetings/may-2012[/url], also has recent assessments posted, which have lots of background info, but the upshot is that we know the squids are highly variable but we don't understand the patterns, but it doesn't look like fishing has caused any major problems so far for squid.
There is some developing work on trying to assess the squid population in real time, which was the focus of the workshop we ran in January 2013 ([url="http://www.mafmc.org/workshop/squid-management-workshop-january-2013"]http://www.mafmc.org/workshop/squid-management-workshop-january-2013[/url]). The Falklands Islands presentation at that link gives a good overview of what I think is the only true real-time assessment and management of squid that exists.
Jason
The Council is currently gearing up for setting 2014 specifications and there is a lot of info linked on this page: [url="http://www.mafmc.org/ssc-meetings/2013/april-may"]http://www.mafmc.org/ssc-meetings/2013/april-may[/url]. The fishery informational document and the NEFSC Biological Update under Longfin Squid summarize what we know about longfin squid (used to be called Loligo but some taxonomists decided to confuse everybody and chage the name to Doryteuthis (Amerigo) pealeii). The link to last years process, [url="http://www.mafmc.org/ssc-meetings/may-2012"]http://www.mafmc.org/ssc-meetings/may-2012[/url], also has recent assessments posted, which have lots of background info, but the upshot is that we know the squids are highly variable but we don't understand the patterns, but it doesn't look like fishing has caused any major problems so far for squid.
There is some developing work on trying to assess the squid population in real time, which was the focus of the workshop we ran in January 2013 ([url="http://www.mafmc.org/workshop/squid-management-workshop-january-2013"]http://www.mafmc.org/workshop/squid-management-workshop-january-2013[/url]). The Falklands Islands presentation at that link gives a good overview of what I think is the only true real-time assessment and management of squid that exists.
Jason